Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Case of Family Background

In human societies the choice of a spouse is the outcome of individual mating choice and parental influence over mating. However, parents and offspring do not share identical interests with respect to mating. Accordingly, in order to understand this process it is necessary to examine the degree to w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menelaos Apostolou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600310