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Sexual Selection Under Parental Choice - The Evolution of Human Mating Behavior (Hardcover, New)
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Sexual Selection Under Parental Choice - The Evolution of Human Mating Behavior (Hardcover, New)
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Parents often disagree with their children over their choice of
partner. Although the reasons may vary the outcome is very often
one of conflict - a conflict peculiar to the human species. For the
first time in one volume, Sexual Selection under Parental Choice
employs an evolutionary perspective to understand this conflict and
explore its implications. Covering recent developments in the field
of evolutionary psychology, Menelaos Apostolou reveals the extent
of parental attempts to control the mating decisions of their
offspring and investigates the qualities parents seek in
prospective in-laws. Children's attempt to escape this control can
lead to practices such as foot-binding and clitoridectomy or, in
postindustrial societies, more subtle forms of coercion and
manipulation. Apostolou demonstrates that much of human mating
behavior has been shaped by parental choice and that parents have a
significant influence in sexual selection: the traits they favour
in their children's mates are selected and increase in frequency in
the population. Sexual Selection under Parental Choice will be
ideal reading for researchers and advanced students of
evolutionary, developmental and social psychology, as well as other
related disciplines such as social anthropology, sociology and the
biological sciences.
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