Human Sex Differences in Behavioral Ecological Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11308024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B S Low (0000-0003-1539-9168, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-67 |
| Publication date | 1994-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Analyse & Kritik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0171-5860 • E-ISSN: 2365-9858 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/auk-1994-0103 |
| OpenAlex | W2397253557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
Behavioral ecology, based in the theory of natural selection, predicts that certain behaviors are likely to differ consistently between the sexes in humans as well as other species: aggression, resource striving, information content of sexual signalling. These differences, though of course open to modification by cultural practice, arise because male and female humans, like males and females of other mammal species, typically optimize their reproductive lifetimes through different behaviors: males specializing in mating effort (which has a high fixed cost, and is not offspring-specific), and females in parental effort (which has more linear reproductive returns, and is offspring-specific). The resulting patterns are reviewed
Aggression · Behavioral ecology · Biology · Developmental psychology · Mating · Mating system · Offspring · Perspective (graphical · Population · Pregnancy · Reproductive success · Sexual selection · Sociology · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Psychology · Ecology
The kindness of strangers
Resources and Population Dynamics
Childbearing and Land Availability
Despotism, Social Evolution, and Differential Reproduction
Cultural and reproductive success in industrial societies
Reproductive Suppression Among Female Mammals
Darwinism and human affairs
Children of Six Cultures
Abandoned Children
Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population
Measures of Polygyny in Humans
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
Correlates of reproductive success in a Caribbean village
Status Enhancement and Fertility
Mothers of Misery
Why There Are So Few Women Warriors
Trivers‐Willard effect in contemporary North American society
Humanity's propensity for warfare
The Value of Children During Industrialization
A Demographic and Social Analysis of Widowhood and Remarriage
Reproductive success and occupational class in eighteenth-century lancashire, England
Fertility Among Women on Welfare
On the Relationship Between Landholding and Fertility
Toward an Ecological Demography
Traits Inculcated in Childhood
Political Decision Making and Conflict
Recent Changes in Divorce and Remarriage
Population and Society in Norway 1735-1865
Parental Investment and Elite Family Structure in Preindustrial States
Economy, Family, and Remarriage
On Human Fertility
Hunting Ability and Reproductive Success Among Male Ache Foragers
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |