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The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species. Almost all scholarly effort focuses on sexual selection in non-human species and extrapolates the findings to the human one. However, human mating has a unique pattern not found in any other species, namely parental influence over mate choice. Across preindustrial societies, the typical pattern of long-term mating is arranged marriage, where parents choose spouses for their children. By doing so, parents effectivel

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Author

Menelaos Apostolou (auth.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319589992

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-25