Strategic pluralism
Strategic pluralism is a theory in evolutionary biology that suggests that women have evolved to evaluate men in two categories: whether they are reliable long term providers, and whether they contain high quality genes. Ideally, a woman would attract and pair-bond with a mate that has both long-term providing benefits, while also carrying quality genes that are inheritible by her offspring. But since men that excel in both categories are very rare to come by, not all women will be able to secure such a man. This leads to most women facing trade-offs in their mating choice. To solve the problem of these trade-offs, the theory of strategic plularism says that women may have evolved to pursuit a dual-mating strategy, whereby they secure long-term investments from one mate, while securing high quality genes from another (extrapair) mate when they are ovulating.[1][2][3][4][5]
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References
- ^ Steven, Gangestad (2000). "The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23: 573–644 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ A. Frederick, David (19 June 2007). "Why Is Muscularity Sexy? Tests of the Fitness Indicator Hypothesis" (PDF). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 33: 1167–1183 – via SAGE.
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