Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences

“How an evolutionary perspective can help us understand cross-cultural consistency and variation in mate preferences, and how these preferences interact with and contribute to variation in gender roles and equality across cultures.”

This essay outlines the proximate and ultimate importance of mate-choice, offering evolutionary insights into cross-cultural consistency and variation in mate preferences. The paper will then explore how these preferences interact with and contribute to variation in gender roles and equality cross-culturally, specifically the…