Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex

Elizabeth G. Pillsworth, M. Haselton
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Abstract Because of their heavy obligatory investment in offspring and limited offspring number, ancestral women faced the challenge of securing sufficient material resources for reproduction and gaining access to good genes. We review evidence indicating that selection produced two overlapping suites of psychological adaptations to address these challenges. The first set involves coupling—the formation of social partnerships for providing biparental care. The second set involves dual mating, a strategy in which women form long-term relationships with investing partners, while surreptitiously seeking good genes from extrapair mates. The sources of evidence we review include hunter-gather studies, comparative nonhuman studies, cross-cultural studies, and evidence of shifts in women's desires across the ovulatory cycle. We argue that the evidence poses a challenge to some existing theories of human mating and adds to our understanding of the subtlety of women's sexual strategies.
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女性的性策略:长期关系和超配性的进化
由于对后代的强制性投入和后代数量的限制,祖先妇女面临着确保足够的物质资源用于生殖和获得良好基因的挑战。我们回顾了表明自然选择产生了两套重叠的心理适应来应对这些挑战的证据。第一组涉及到配对——形成社会伙伴关系来提供双亲的照顾。第二种策略涉及双重交配,即女性与投资伙伴建立长期关系,同时秘密地从额外的伴侣那里寻找好的基因。我们回顾的证据来源包括狩猎采集研究,比较非人类研究,跨文化研究,以及女性在排卵周期中欲望变化的证据。我们认为,这些证据对一些现有的人类交配理论提出了挑战,并增加了我们对女性性策略微妙性的理解。
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