Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost of Free Mate Choice /

• Main Author: Apostolou, Menelaos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Physical anthropology.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Behavioral Sciences.; Biological Anthropology.; Sexual Behavior.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

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...