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Eating their cake and having it too: Or, how women maximize reproductive success by simultaneous mating and dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Gwen J. Broude
Gwen J. Broude
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0152 [email protected]
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Abstract

Data support the claim from the target article that women, both cross-culturally and historically, have employed a variety of mating strategies, marrying but also engaging in short-term unions. But those strategies appear to be practiced simultaneously and not conditionally as Gangestad & Simpson propose, a finding consistent with assumed constraints on the potential reproductive success of females.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 595
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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