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5 - Competitiveness and Fatherhood as Overarching Domains of Female Choice in Human Evolution

from Part I - Precopulatory Adaptations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2022

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Gregory Gorelik
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Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford
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Oakland University, Michigan
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The present chapter advances the view that women’s mate preferences can be grouped into at least two overarching domains: competitiveness and fatherhood. Theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that female mate preferences evolve in contexts of male competitiveness and often amplify the effects of male–male competition. Evidence for the importance of male–male competition and female choice for competitiveness in humans is reviewed. Evidence is likewise offered for the importance of human fatherhood as an additional domain of female choice outside of male competitiveness. Implications of more inclusive mate preferences for the evolution of cognitive architecture are discussed alongside the social and ethical implications of female choice for competitiveness.

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sexual selectionfemale choicemale-male competitionfatherhoodpaternal investment
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The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology , pp. 111 - 143
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Print publication year: 2022

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