Sexual selection under parental choice: the role of parents in the evolution of human mating

By Menelaos Apostolou. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “In some traditional societies women choose their spouses (Marlowe, 2004), and across traditional societies women frequently influence their family's choice of a spouse, are often consulted, and occasionally elope (Apostolou, 2007).”
Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Case of Beauty (2008, background): “On the other hand the offspring attempt to escape from this control and exercise their own mating choice through divorce or extramarital relationships ( Apostolou, 2007b ).”
Cultural Variation in Parental Influence on Mate Choice (2010, background): “…indicate belief that parents will make the decision and higher values indicate belief that one will make own decision (on a scale of 1 to 7). basis of ethnographic reports, parental influence seems to have been the rule rather than the exception in hunter–gatherer societies (Apostolou, 2007).”
Meet the parents: Parent-offspring convergence and divergence in mate preferences (2011, unknown): “…based on the sex of their offspring: placing good earning capacity nearly three ranks higher for sons-in-law and physically attractive nearly two ranks higher for daughtersin-law , replicating past research (Apostolou, 2007b, 2008a, 2008b; Baber, 1936; Buunk et al., 2008; Hynie et al., 2006).”
Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “Although freely choosing a partner may seem to be the modal mating pattern, it is not and was not in our evolutionary past (Apostolou, 2007; Broude & Greene, 1983; Puts, 2010).”
Sexual selection under parental choice in agropastoral societies (2010, methodology): “Parental control over mating is made possible mainly by two factors: the extensive period that the offspring are dependent upon their parents' investment for survival and reproduction, and the fact that parents and their kin are physically stronger than their children (Apostolou, 2007b).”