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Sweet savage love: FA, BO, and SES in the EEA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Nicole Hess
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract

Proxies of mate value must be evolutionarily salient. Gangestad & Simpson (G&S) have made a good case that fluctuating asymmetry is an important proxy of male mate value that correlates well with genetic and developmental quality. The use of financial variables as proxies for male investment ability by Gangestad, Simpson, and virtually every other investigator of human mating in evolutionary perspective, is, however, more problematic.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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