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mating
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A mating strategy is therefore an integrated set of adaptations that organize and guide an individual's mating effort (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000).
Females often outnumber males, so males get a good rate of return on their mating efforts, Shapiro says.
Because men and women differ in minimum obligatory parental investment, men devote a larger proportion of their total mating effort than do women to short-term mating.
 
 
 
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