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Mating and marriage, husbands and lovers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Stephen Beckerman
Stephen Beckerman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 stv@psu.edu
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Abstract

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Human mating strategies are contingent on individual prospects. Gangestad & Simpson provide a useful framework to explore these differing prospects, but do not take sufficient account of what is known ethnographically about mating decisions. Women often do not select their own long term mates. Men often have two or more long term mates, and can invest in the offspring of short term matings also.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 590 - 591
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press