Sexual selection under parental choice: the role of parents in the evolution of human mating
Sexual selection under parental choice: the role of parents in the evolution of human mating
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DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.05.007
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Apostolou, Menelaos
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作者：
Apostolou, Menelaos
许多关于人类交配的进化文献都是基于我们物种历史上广泛的女性选择的假设。然而，来自觅食社会的人种学证据表明，在被认为与我们祖先相似的社会中，女性的选择受到父母对女儿的控制的限制。来自190个狩猎和采集社会的数据表明，几乎所有的生育都是在妇女结婚时进行的，婚姻制度由父母和近亲管理。父母能够影响儿子和女儿的婚配决定，但对女儿的控制更强;在选择姻亲方面，男性父母比女性父母有更多的发言权。鉴于父母控制是现存觅食动物择偶的典型模式，这种模式很可能在整个人类进化过程中也很普遍。由于女儿的偏好可能不会与父母的偏好完全一致，因此，迄今为止的研究可能同时高估了女性偏好对性选择过程的贡献，并低估了父母偏好对这一过程的贡献。(C)2007爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Much of the evolutionary literature on human mating is based on the assumption of extensive female choice during the history of our species. However, ethnographic evidence from foraging societies reveals that, in societies thought to be akin to those of our ancestors, female choice is constrained by the control that parents exercise over their daughters. Data from 190 hunting and gathering societies indicate that almost all reproduction takes place while the woman is married and that the institution of marriage is regulated by parents and close kin. Parents are able to influence the mating decisions of both sons and daughters, but stronger control is exercised with regard to daughters; male parents have more say in selecting in-laws than their female counterparts. In light of the fact that parental control is the typical pattern of mate choice among extant foragers, it is likely that this pattern was also prevalent throughout human evolution. Because daughters' preferences can be expected not to fully coincide with those of their parents, research to date may thus have simultaneously overestimated the contribution of female preferences to processes of sexual selection and underestimated the contribution of parental preferences to such processes. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.