{"title":"Dominant looking male teenagers copulate earlier","authors":"Allan Mazur, Carolyn Halpern, J.Richard Udry","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90019-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90019-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many theorists suggest that dominant males leave more offspring than submissive males, but this seems not to be true among humans. Possibly dominant human males have more copulatory opportunity, but they or their partners prevent conception. Teenage boys were judged to look either dominant or submissive in facial appearance. They were also rated on attractiveness and pubertal development. Dominant looking boys are more likely to report coital opportunity than submissive looking boys, net of attractiveness and pubertal development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 87-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90019-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542343","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 social cage: Human nature and the evolution of society","authors":"Roger D. Masters","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90021-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90021-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 107-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90021-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91643488","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}
Steven W. Gangestad , Randy Thornhill , Ronald A. Yeo
{"title":"Facial attractiveness, developmental stability, and fluctuating asymmetry","authors":"Steven W. Gangestad , Randy Thornhill , Ronald A. Yeo","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90018-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90018-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite robust cross-cultural reliability of human facial attractiveness ratings, research on facial attractiveness has only superficially addressed the connection between facial attractiveness and the history of sexual selection in <em>Homo sapiens</em>. There are reasons to believe that developmental stability and phenotypic quality are related. Recent studies of nonhuman animals indicate that developmental stability, measured as fluctuating asymmetry in generally bilateral symmetrical traits, is predictive of performance in sexual selection: Relatively symmetrical males are advantaged under sexual selection. This pattern is suggested by our study of facial attractiveness and fluctuating asymmetry in seven bilateral body traits in a student population. Overall, facial attractiveness negatively correlated with fluctuating asymmetry; the relation for men, but not for women, was statistically reliable. Possible confounding factors were controlled for in the analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 73-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90018-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542331","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 Hunter-Gatherer theory of spatial sex differences: Proximate factors mediating the female advantage in recall of object arrays","authors":"Marion Eals, Irwin Silverman","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90020-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90020-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on their theory that sex differences in spatial abilities originated in human evolution as a function of division of labor, Silverman and Eals (1992) demonstrated in a series of studies that females consistently surpassed males in recall of locations of objects in a spatial array. The present studies were replications of the above, but with the inclusion of uncommon objects, for which subjects would not possess verbal labels. Female superiority for recall of locations of common objects as observed in Silverman and Eals was replicated across incidental and directed learning conditions. The female advantage occured as well for uncommon objects, but only under incidental learning conditions. Conjectures are offered regarding sex differences in attentional and imagery processes that could account for this pattern of results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 95-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90020-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542353","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":"Sex and age differences in preferences and tactics of mate attraction: Analysis of published advertisements","authors":"I.A. Greenlees, W.C. McGrew","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90017-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90017-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using the theoretical perspective of evolutionary biology, 13 hypotheses were generated concerning sex and age differences in human mate preferences and tactics of mate attraction. Classified “lonely hearts” advertisements (N = 1,000) from a nationally circulated, fortnightly magazine were content-analyzed. Men, more than women, sought cues to reproductive value (i.e., physical appearance and youth), whereas women, more than men, sought cues revealing an ability to acquire resources (i.e., actual and potential financial security and older men). Women also sought to ascertain a man's willingness to provide resources (in the form of time, emotions, money, and status) in a relationship. Both sexes offered those traits sought by the opposite sex. Men were more promiscuously inclined than women, favoring casual relationships and being more likely to be married, whereas women sought long-term monogamous relationships. These differences support evolutionary predictions based on concepts of sexual selection, parental investment, and reproductive capacities and confirm the use of personal advertisements as a valuable method of research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 59-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90017-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542282","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 social cage: Human nature and the evolution of society : Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan Turner Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992","authors":"R. Masters","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90021-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90021-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"52 1","pages":"107-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90021-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542364","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":"Can behavior genetics contribute to evolutionary studies of behavior?","authors":"Michael Bailey","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90029-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90029-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Page 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90029-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542442","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 functional analysis of human fertility decisions","authors":"Guy Beauchamp","doi":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90026-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0162-3095(94)90026-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the theoretical structure of new home economics models, human fertility decisions are taken so as to maximize satisfaction provided to the parents by the presence and well-being of their children and by other competing commodities. Nevertheless, the concept of utility of children fails to specify why parents benefit from the presence and well-being of their progeny. In this study, fertility choices are analyzed from an evolutionary perspective. Parents are thus expected to adopt a lifetime fertility schedule `that maximizes fitness, defined here as the product of quantity with quality of offspring. Quality refers to the probability that reproduction occurs in the next generation, a variable that is thought to depend on the amount of resources allocated by the parents to the progeny. Using multiperiod dynamic models of fertility, it is shown that an increase in wealth and income reduces time to first conceptions and increases total conceptions. However, the relationship between offspring number and income is not always positive as changes in child quality also occur. Uncertainty about future economic status favors more conservative fertility schedules. Qualitative predictions of the models are generally supported by available evidence, although much work remains to be done to estimate the models quantitatively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81211,"journal":{"name":"Ethology and sociobiology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 31-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0162-3095(94)90026-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53542411","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}