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Elements of Parental Choice: The Evolution of Parental Preferences in Relation to In-Law Selection

by: shinta, 14 pages

With the exception of modern post-industrial societies, parents have primarily been in control of the mating decisions of their offspring. The selection of in-laws has important fitness ...

Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Case of Beauty

by: shinta, 13 pages

In pre-industrial societies parents exercise a strong influence over the mating decisions of their offspring. As modern pre-industrial societies approximate the way of life in ancestral human ...

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