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mating
(redirected from Mate selection)

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See: matrimony


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This recent work suggests that mate selection is a dialectic process with significant choice exercised by both males and females, and with significant fitness effects demonstrated when that choice is constrained.
12) Critics of these theories contend that their descriptions of the qualities that determine mate selection are vague, and that they fail to differentiate between selection strategies for women and men and selection of partnerships of varying duration (for example, nonmarital sex partnerships).
 
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