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  2. Mate choice in humans - Wikipedia

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    The relative importance of these traits when considering mate selection differ depending on the type of mating arrangement females engage in. Human women typically employ long-term mating strategies when choosing a mate, however they also engage in short-term mating arrangements, so their mate choice preferences change depending on the function ...

  3. Mate choice - Wikipedia

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    Choosing a mate for attractiveness could thus help to find a healthy mate resistant to parasites. [79] [80] Scarification could be viewed by prospective mates as evidence that a person has overcome parasites and is thus more attractive. [81] [82] Masculinity, especially in the face, could equally indicate robust parasite-free health.

  4. Human mating strategies - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology, human mating strategies are a set of behaviors used by individuals to select, attract, and retain mates.Mating strategies overlap with reproductive strategies, which encompass a broader set of behaviors involving the timing of reproduction and the trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring.

  5. Sexual selection in humans - Wikipedia

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    Sexual selection is a biological way one sex chooses a mate for the best reproductive success. Most compete with others of the same sex for the best mate to contribute their genome for future generations. This has shaped human evolution for many years, but reasons why humans choose their mates are not fully understood.

  6. Mating preferences - Wikipedia

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    In humans beings, when choosing a mate of the opposite sex, females place high preference for a mate that is physically attractive. [2] This ties in with the idea that women discriminate between men on hypothesized fitness cues. The more physically attractive a man is, the higher his fitness, and the "better" his genes will be.

  7. Sexual selection - Wikipedia

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    Sexual selection creates colourful differences between sexes in Goldie's bird-of-paradise.Male above; female below. Painting by John Gerrard Keulemans.. Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual ...

  8. Sexual selection in spiders - Wikipedia

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    These external conditions depend on the amount of competition between males of the species. When competition rates are low, males mate opportunistically with as many females as possible. [20] When competition between males is high, larger males choose to mate with a large female as opposed to the smaller males who choose to mate with any female.

  9. Hypergamy - Wikipedia

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    Studies of mate selection in dozens of countries around the world have found men and women report prioritizing different traits when it comes to choosing a mate, with both groups favoring attractive partners in general, but men tending to prefer women who are young while women tend to prefer men who are rich, well educated, and ambitious. [8]