Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Case of Beauty
In pre-industrial societies parents exercise a strong influence over the mating decisions of their offspring. As modern pre-industrial societies approximate the way of life in ancestral human societies, human mating behavior should be seen as the outcome of a co-evolutionary process between parental...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2008-04-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600207 |