Dynamical Systems and Mating Decision Rules

• Main Authors: KENRICK, Douglas T., LI, Norman P., BUTNER, Jonathan E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• Subjects: Gender and Sexuality; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/716; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1715/viewcontent/DynamicalSystemsMatingDecisionRules_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Dynamical simulations of male and female mating strategies illustrate how traits such as restrictedness constrain, and are constrained by, local ecology. Such traits cannot be defined solely by genotype or by phenotype, but are better considered as decision rules gauged to ecological inputs. Gangest...