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Factors in female mate choice include the woman's own perceived attractiveness, the woman's personal resources, mate copying and parasite stress. [67] Romantic love is the mechanism through which long-term mate choice occurs in human females. [69] In humans, females have to endure a nine-month pregnancy and childbirth. [67]
A majority of cases saw women rate Dependable/Stable vs. Good Looks/Health higher, implying a stable personality is more desirable to women than a physically attractive mate. [43] Education/Intelligence vs. Desire for Home/Children was also rated higher, showing that similar educational background and political views are more important than ...
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 biological 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 ...
Female mate choice hinges on many different coinciding male traits, and the trade-off between many of these traits must be assessed. The ultimate traits most salient to female human mate choice, however, are parental investment, resource provision and the provision of good genes to offspring.
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.
Male mate value depends on his access to resources while female mate value lies in her youth and fertility. Mate values correspond to future reproductive success likelihood of an individual. [96] Mate value contains the ability of the individual to produce healthy offspring in the future, based on the individual's age and sex. [96]
In ethology, male-male intrasexual competition occurs when two males of the same species compete for the opportunity to mate with a female. Sexually dimorphic traits, size, sex ratio, [1] and the social situation [2] may all play a role in the effects male-male competition has on the reproductive success of a male and the mate choice of a female.
Dating preferences refers to the preferences that individuals have towards a potential partner when approaching the formation of a romantic relationship. This concept is related to mate choice in humans, the research literature there primarily discusses the preference for traits that are evolutionarily desirable, such as physical symmetry, waist-to-chest ratio, and waist-to-hip ratio.