Sexual Selection Under Parental Choice - The Evolution of Human Mating Behavior

Informationen zum Autor Menelaos Apostolou Zusammenfassung Parents often disagree with their children over their choice of partner. For the first time in one volume, Sexual Selection under Parental Choice employs an evolutionary perspective to understand this conflict. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Introduction. 1: Parent-offspring Conflict over Mating: The Evolutionary Roots of Romeo and Juliet’s story. 2: Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Road Has more Turns. 3: Sexual Selection under Parental Choice: Evolution beyond the Peacock’s Tail. 4: From the Present to the Past: The Patterns of Mating During the Period of Human Evolution. 5: Parental Control over Mating through Social Institutions. 6: Social Structures and Parental Control over Mating. 7: The Art of Manipulation: Parental Influence over Mate Choice in Postindustrial Societies. 8: What Parents Want? In-law Preferences across Cultures. 9: Choose and Be Chosen. 10: Mate Choice without Parents. Postscript.

Product details

• Authors: Menelaos Apostolou, Apostolou Menelaos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9781848721814
• ISBN: 978-1-84872-181-4
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Social and cultural anthropology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Sociology: family and relationships