Sexual selection in homo sapiens : parental control over mating and the opportunity cost of free mate choice

• Main Author: Apostolou, Menelaos, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
• Subjects: Mate selection > Psychological aspects.; Parent and child.; Sex (Psychology); Evolutionary psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319589992; 9783319589985
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species. Almost all scholarly effort focuses on sexual selection in non-human species and extrapolates the findings to the human one. However, human mating has a unique pattern not found in any other species, namely parental in...