TY - JOUR
T1 - Age preferences in mates
T2 - an even closer look, without the distorting lenses
AU - Kenrick, Douglas
AU - Keefe, R. C.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Einon's data support our original claims, although not a claim she seems to assume; of reciprocal attraction between elderly men and 20-year-old women, Implicit in her commentary is an assumption that genetic predispositions are omniscient fitness maximizers. Instead, evolutionary models assume selection-fashioned psychological mechanisms that, in the context of other mechanisms and pressures in past environments, had a positive effect on fitness relative to competing alternatives. The Over and Phillips data fit with our own data on homosexuals, and with the assumption of independent modular mechanisms, rather than any existing sociocultural models. Einon also incorrectly assumes that evolutionary models have overemphasized male choice to the exclusion of female choice.
AB - Einon's data support our original claims, although not a claim she seems to assume; of reciprocal attraction between elderly men and 20-year-old women, Implicit in her commentary is an assumption that genetic predispositions are omniscient fitness maximizers. Instead, evolutionary models assume selection-fashioned psychological mechanisms that, in the context of other mechanisms and pressures in past environments, had a positive effect on fitness relative to competing alternatives. The Over and Phillips data fit with our own data on homosexuals, and with the assumption of independent modular mechanisms, rather than any existing sociocultural models. Einon also incorrectly assumes that evolutionary models have overemphasized male choice to the exclusion of female choice.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X97230049
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X97230049
M3 - Short survey
AN - SCOPUS:0030751786
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 20
SP - 140
EP - 143
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 1
ER -