{"title":"Fluctuating asymmetry and body weight in men and women: Implications for sexual selection","authors":"J.T. Manning","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00074-H","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00074-H","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), small random fluctuations from perfect bilateral symmetry, is an indicator of developmental stability and therefore of good genes. Sexually selected weapons, such as the canine teeth of some primates, often show a negative relationship between FA and size of weapon. This suggests that it is only the males with the best genes who are able to produce large symmetrical weapons. Male body mass, which may improve fighting success, is not bilaterally symmetrical, and little is known of its relationship with FA. It is shown that for human males the body weight in adults is negatively related to FA; this suggests that male body weight is condition-dependent in that it is only individuals with the best genes who are able to develop and maintain large size. There is no relationship between weight and FA in children. For human females, there is a positive correlation between body weight and FA in adults but not in children; the implications of this finding for the understanding of the selection pressures that operate on women's weight are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 2","pages":"Pages 145-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00074-H","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symbolic or not-so-symbolic wounds: The behavioral ecology of human scarification","authors":"L.R. Ludvico, J.A. Kurland","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00075-I","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00075-I","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scarification, the deliberate and often painful modification of the body, is analyzed from the perspective of four competing hypotheses: (1) a rite of passage, (2) a hardening/trauma procedure, (3) a nonadaptive sexually selected character, or (4) an adaptive pathogen-driven sexually selected character. These four hypotheses are tested using the Standard Cross Cultural Sample (SCCS). Hypothesis 1 is supported in the worldwide sample as well as two of the geographic subsamples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 2","pages":"Pages 155-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00075-I","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The red queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature","authors":"Roger D. Masters","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(95)90033-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(95)90033-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 2","pages":"Pages 173-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(95)90033-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A few good men: Evolutionary psychology and female adolescent aggression","authors":"Anne Campbell","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00072-F","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00072-F","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that crime peaks in the teens and early 20s and that this pattern shows invariance over culture, history, offense, and sex. Wilson and Daly (1985) have proposed that among young, disadvantaged males, the age-crime curve reflects risky tactics aimed at averting “reproductive death.” Though young women's rate of involvement in violent crime is much lower than men's, they also show a similar age-violence curve for assault. This paper proposes that this may be the result of aggressive mate selection among young women and that, under certain specified circumstances, women may engage in low-key intrasexual strategies in addition to epigamic strategies. This paper reviews material on sex differences in violent crime and in mate selection strategies, and offers predictions about the likely circumstances under which females will use intrasexual strategies. The scant available data on female adolescent fighting suggest that female-female assaults are more common than official statistical estimates and that they are frequently triggered by three key issues related to reproductive fitness: management of sexual reputation, competition over access to resource-rich young men, and protecting heterosexual relationships from takeover by rival women.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 2","pages":"Pages 99-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00072-F","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why does culture increase human adaptability?","authors":"Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00073-G","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00073-G","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is often argued that culture is adaptive because it allows people to acquire useful information without costly learning. In a recent paper Rogers (1989) analyzed a simple mathematical model that showed that this argument is wrong. Here we show that Rogers' result is robust. As long as the only benefit of social learning is that imitators avoid learning costs, social learning does not increase average fitness. However, we also show that social learning can be adaptive if it makes individual learning more accurate or less costly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 2","pages":"Pages 125-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00073-G","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keywords in evolutionary biology","authors":"Melissa S. Gerald","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(95)90012-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(95)90012-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 91-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(95)90012-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Have attitudes toward homosexuals been shaped by natural selection?","authors":"Gordon G. Gallup Jr.","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00028-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00028-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a series of four surveys administered either to college students or adults, reactions toward homosexuals were found to vary as a function of (1) the homosexual's likelihood of having contact with children and (2) the reproductive status (either real or imagined) of the respondent. These results are consistent with the hypothesis advanced by Gallup and Suarez (1983) that because parents have a reproductive interest in the sexual orientation of their offspring, reactions to homosexuals might be expected to vary as a function of their likelihood of having contact with children. The strong form of this hypothesis holds that the expression of homophobia should be context specific and that most people (including homosexuals) should exhibit homophobic reactions under certain conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 53-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00028-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Marshall Townsend, Jeffrey Kline, Timothy H. Wasserman
{"title":"Low-investment copulation: Sex differences in motivations and emotional reactions","authors":"John Marshall Townsend, Jeffrey Kline, Timothy H. Wasserman","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00027-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00027-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Samples of male (<em>n</em> = 113) and female (<em>n</em> = 175) college students were surveyed. Majorities of both sexes agreed with statements indicating that males' sexual attractiveness varied more than females' sexual attractiveness as a function of their status. Subjects who reported more sex partners and a greater aversion to sexual monogamy were slightly more likely to agree that they tested their partners to see how far they could push them. Interviews with highly sexually active females (<em>n</em> = 32) and males (<em>n</em> = 24) indicated that low-investment copulation and lack of control over the sexual access-investment ratio caused even women with very permissive attitudes and multiple sex partners to develop an aversion to low-investment copulation. Three levels were identified in this process. The techniques that women with multiple partners used to deal with their feelings are described. Females tested their partners for ability and willingness to invest. Males tested for opportunities to reduce investment and pursue other women. High status, for example athletic stardom, transformed males' sexual attractiveness to women and numbers of sex partners. Results were consistent with the view that the emotional-motivational mechanisms that moderate sexual arousal and attraction are sexually dimorphic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 25-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00027-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monica A. Landolt , Martin L. Lalumière , Vernon L. Quinsey
{"title":"Sex differences in intra-sex variations in human mating tactics: An evolutionary approach","authors":"Monica A. Landolt , Martin L. Lalumière , Vernon L. Quinsey","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00012-V","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00012-V","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We assessed sex differences in the effects of physical attractiveness and earning potential on mate selection, and sex differences in preferences and motivations with regard to short-term and long-term mating. We also investigated the effect of a variable likely to produce intra-sex variations in the selection of mating tactics, self-perceived mating success. Forty-eight university students were presented with pictures and short descriptions of persons of the opposite sex varying in physical attractiveness and earning potential. Dating interest was influenced, for both sexes, by stimulus-person's physical attractiveness <em>and</em> earning potential, but these two characteristics interacted only for female raters. Male and female subjects showed discrepant preferences and motivations with regard to short-term and long-term mating. In addition, self-perceived mating success was related to mating tactics in males only: Males who perceived themselves as more successful, compared to males who perceived themselves as less successful, tended to prefer and to more often select short-term mating. This effect was maximized when the stimulus person was very attractive and of high earning potential. These results confirm sex differences in mating preferences, strongly suggest a proximal factor of tactic selection, and suggest that males' mating strategies may be more variable than females'.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 3-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00012-V","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Support and conflict of kinsmen: A response to Hekala and Buell","authors":"Steven B. Johnson, Ronald C. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00013-W","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)00013-W","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hekala and Buell, in their first response, argued that using data from more than one era is a grave error. They no longer raise this issue, apparently recognizing that sociobiological principles, if true, should operate across cultures and eras. They examine the conflicts described in <em>Hen-Thorir's saga</em> and conclude that kinship had no influence in individuals' involvements in the conflict described in this saga, and generalize to sagas in general. <em>Hen-Thorir's saga</em> is a very short minor saga. Another short saga is described herein and yields contradictory results. More sagas might well have been examined, and if analysis was limited to one saga, the saga chosen should have been much longer. It would have been appropriate to have examined the <em>Orkneyinga saga</em> as one of those that formed the content of the original paper. Issues having to do with the accuracy of those English-language versions of the sagas available to most readers are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"16 1","pages":"Pages 83-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)00013-W","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53541877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}