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17.1 Introduction 17.1 Introduction
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17.1.1 Overview: human mate choice in context 17.1.1 Overview: human mate choice in context
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17.1.2 Before psychology: Darwin on mate choice and race 17.1.2 Before psychology: Darwin on mate choice and race
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17.1.3 Social and developmental psychology 17.1.3 Social and developmental psychology
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17.1.4 Evolutionary psychology and reductionism 17.1.4 Evolutionary psychology and reductionism
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17.2 Social influences on human mating decisions 17.2 Social influences on human mating decisions
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17.3 Variation in human mating preferences 17.3 Variation in human mating preferences
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17.4 Synthesis: integrating evolutionary and social-science approaches to human sexuality 17.4 Synthesis: integrating evolutionary and social-science approaches to human sexuality
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17.5 Additional reading 17.5 Additional reading
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17 Mate Choice and Human Exceptionalism
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Published:July 2017
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Abstract
This chapter presents a biological perspective on the diversity and complexity of human mate choice. Mating preferences can change very rapidly owing to the fact that they depend on a large reservoir of standing genetic variations whose effects can be modified and reversed by environmental and social inputs. In contemporary global society, rapid technological and societal changes means that individual mating preferences have an unprecedented potential to be revealed and expressed as choices, some with reproductive consequences. Individuals now have more agency than they ever have in human history, with a greater opportunity than ever to sample potential mates. The social and evolutionary consequences are sure to be fascinating.
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