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Ethnography, cultural context, and assessments of reproductive success matter when discussing human mating strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Agustin Fuentes*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN46556-5611
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The target article effectively assesses multiple hypotheses for human sexuality, demonstrating support for a complex, integrated perspective. However, care must be taken when extrapolating human universal patterns from specific cultural subsets without appropriate ethnographic contexts. Although it makes a strong contribution to the investigation of human sexuality, the basal reliance on a reductionist perspective constrains the full efficacy of this research.

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