BIOLOGY 1M03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Human Mating Strategies, Mate Choice, Emotional Affair
15 May 2017
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If evolution has shaped the psychology of human mating strategies, then we would expect to find common patterns across societies. Interesting and surprising that neither sex seems to value chastity highly: perhaps because people were asked to evaluate the desirability of sexual experience before marriage, not fidelity during marriage. 2: as men get older, the age difference between them and their wives increases, as women get older, there is little change in the age difference between them and their husbands. Chastity is considered essential in china, but not in sweden: data suggests that human mate preferences are strongly influenced by the cultural and economic environment in which they live. Evolutionary analyses of mate choice have generated considerable controversy over at least two different issues: many people have complained that evolutionary analyses simply reflect and reinforce western cultural values. Kipsigis bridewealth: evolutionary theory explains marriage patterns among the kipsigis, a group of.
