Bateman's principles and human sex roles

In 1948, Angus J. Bateman reported a stronger relationship between mating and reproductive success in male fruit flies compared with females, and concluded that selection should universally favour ‘an undiscriminating eagerness in the males and a discriminating passivity in the females’ to obtain ma...

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Published in:Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) 2009-06, Vol.24 (6), p.297-304
Main Authors: Brown, Gillian R., Laland, Kevin N., Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal and plant ecology
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Biological Evolution
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender Identity
General aspects
Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution
Humans
Male
Models, Genetic
Opinion
Reproduction - genetics
Reproduction - physiology
Selection, Genetic
Sex Characteristics
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