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- Sexual Selection and the Mind - Geoffrey Miller provides an overview of the subject matter and genetics may provide important insight into mate finding behavior.
- The Sexual Competition Hypothesis for Eating Disorders - A hypothesis that suggests eating disorders stem from intense female intra-sexual competition for mates.
- Sex on the Brain - An NPR discussion with Deborah Blum on how commercial advertising exploits adaptations associated with mate finding.
- American Graphological Centers - Download charts which allow persons without any prior experience to immediately begin to interpete over 100 personality traits from a writing sample. Included are charts on signatures and mate selection.
- What turns you on? - A research experiment on sexual attraction and human mate selection.
- An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Eating Disorders - Riadh T. Abed argues that the roots of some eating disorders may be sexual competition. Published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology 71(4):525-547.
- Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior - Online text by Jack and Linda Palmer on evolutionary aspects of human behavior in contexts such as mate selection and the development and maintenance of social hierarchies. Topics include human origins, evolution of the brain and mind, language, tool use and art, and challenges of the modern environment.
- Ellis, Bruce - Family relationships, pubertal timing, and onset of sexual activity and reproduction; sexual attraction and mate selection; dependence and investment in dating relationships (University of Canterbury, New Zealand).
Wikipedia Articles
- Sexual selection - Sexual selection is the theory proposed by Charles Darwin that states that the frequency of traits can increase or decrease depending on the attractiveness of the bearer. Biologists today distinguish between "male to male combat" (it is usually males who fight), "mate choice" (usually female choice of male mates) and "mate coercion" (forced mating).
- Handicap principle - The handicap principle is a hypothesis originally proposed in 1975 by biologist Amotz ZahaviZahavi, A. (1975) Mate selection - a selection for a handicap.
- David Buss - David Buss (born April 14, 1953) is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection. Born to Arnold Buss, a recently retired professor of psychology at The University of Texas, and Edith Buss, he earned his Ph.