TY - JOUR
T1 - Life history, fundamental motives, and sexual competition
AU - Kenrick, Douglas T.
AU - Griskevicius, Vladas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - When it comes to sexual competition, men and women play somewhat different games. To understand why, it helps to step back and consider our species in the context of elephants, pygmy shrews in Madagascar, and clownfish that change sex as they mature. From studying the wide range of vertebrate life histories, biological theorists have extracted a set of common principles that clarify many seemingly arbitrary variations in human mating behaviors. Application of life history theory to human beings has recently led to a number of interesting findings involving sex differences and similarities in mating and sexual competition across different developmental phases and ecological contexts.
AB - When it comes to sexual competition, men and women play somewhat different games. To understand why, it helps to step back and consider our species in the context of elephants, pygmy shrews in Madagascar, and clownfish that change sex as they mature. From studying the wide range of vertebrate life histories, biological theorists have extracted a set of common principles that clarify many seemingly arbitrary variations in human mating behaviors. Application of life history theory to human beings has recently led to a number of interesting findings involving sex differences and similarities in mating and sexual competition across different developmental phases and ecological contexts.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.002
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84923229844
SN - 2352-250X
VL - 1
SP - 40
EP - 44
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
ER -