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Sex differences may indeed exist for 3-D navigational abilities: But was sexual selection responsible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Peter Frost
Peter Frost
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Université de Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada
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Abstract

Polygyny does not necessarily entail sexual selection of men. All factors that affect the operational sex ratio must be considered. Data from contemporary hunter-gatherers indicate higher mortality rates in men than in women, and lost female reproductive time. If sexual selection did occur in ancestral hunter-gatherers, it was probably men selecting women and not women selecting men.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 443 - 444
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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