Variation in Human Mate Choice: Simultaneously Investigating Heritability, Parental Influence, Sexual Imprinting, and Assortative Mating
- 1 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 177 (5) , 605-616
Abstract
Human mate choice is central to individuals’ lives and to the evolution of the species, but the basis of variation in mate choice is not well understood. Here we looked at a large community...Keywords
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