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Conditional mating strategies are contingent on return from investment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Elizabeth M. Hill
Elizabeth M. Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI 48219-0900 hillelm@udmercy.eduwww.udmercy.edu/psychology/Faculty/Hill.html
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Abstract

Gangestad & Simpson present an evolutionary functional analysis of mating strategies. This commentary interprets their argument using a central concept from life history theory, return from investment. Incorporating return from investment allows further specification of costs and benefits from short-term mating in women as well as men and in ecological settings of high environmental variation in mortality and resource availability.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 605 - 606
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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