During the last thirty years the way in which researchers have approached the problem of human mating relationships, has been from different approaches, psychology, physiology, philosophy, anthropology, ethology and sociology among many other areas of thinking, have speculated on the mechanisms, the purpose and origin of this complex behavior (Berscheid, 1994). Only the study of mating behavior in an evolutionary approach can unravel some of these questions and integrate the findings or rule out various hypotheses have been proposed from different areas of study of behavior and thinking the human species.
To study from an evolutionary perspective the human mating behavior, we must first know if this character is subject to natural selection, ie if it meets three essential conditions: first that is inherited through genetic mechanisms, which this variability within the population and which are related to the fitness of the individual.
While the human mind is highly flexible and able to respond differently to environmental stimuli, many behavioral traits as part of mating behavior that are common to all human beings. These characters have been retained by natural selection favoring the fitness of individuals (Tooby and Cosmides, 1992), demonstrating an underlying psychological legacy architecture throughout our evolutionary history, which manifests at the intraspecific level with different intensities. An example of this sexual jealousy (Daly and Wilson, 1988), or preference for certain physical attributes (Buss, 1989, Gangestad and Buss, 1993, Gangestad and Simpson, 2000), characters closely related to two essential aspects the evolutionary approach: reproduction and parental care. Bibliography
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Gangestad, S. W. & Buss, D. M. (1993) Pathogen prevalence and human mate preferences. Ethology and Sociobiology 14:89–96.
Gangestad, S. W., & Simpson, J. A. (2000). The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 , 573-644.
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