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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menelaos Apostolou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600207