David Buss
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"Because only 5 percent of the males monopolize 85 percent of the females, sexual selection pressures remain intense even today. Male elephant seals must ..." --The Evolution of Desire (1995) by David Buss "…these results… support the hypothesis that males and females have faced different constraints on reproductive success in our evolutionary past. Females appear to have been limited in reproductive success by access to resources for self and offspring. Males appear to have been limited by access to fertile females. These different selection pressures have presumably produced different male and female reproductive strategies. The greater female preference for mates displaying cues to high resource potential and the greater male preference for mates displaying cues to high reproductive capacity appear to represent adaptations to sex-differentiated reproductive constraints in our evolutionary past."--“Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures” (1995) by David Buss |
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David M. Buss (born April 14, 1953) is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, theorizing and researching human sex differences in mate selection.
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Published books
- Buss, D.M., The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies Of Human Mating. Basic Books, 1995. -Template:ISBN
- Buss, D.M. and Malamuth, N., Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives. Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. -Template:ISBN
- Buss, D.M., Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love and Sex. Diane Pub Co, 2000. -Template:ISBN
- Buss, D.M., The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is Necessary in Love and Sex. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2001. -Template:ISBN
- Buss, D.M., The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Wiley, 2005. -Template:ISBN
- Buss, D.M., The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill. Penguin, 2006. -Template:ISBN
- Meston, C.M. and Buss, D.M., Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge. Times Books, 2009. -Template:ISBN
See also
- D. M. Buss, “Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1989, 1–14.
- "…these results… support the hypothesis that males and females have faced different constraints on reproductive success in our evolutionary past. Females appear to have been limited in reproductive success by access to resources for self and offspring. Males appear to have been limited by access to fertile females. These different selection pressures have presumably produced different male and female reproductive strategies. The greater female preference for mates displaying cues to high resource potential and the greater male preference for mates displaying cues to high reproductive capacity appear to represent adaptations to sex-differentiated reproductive constraints in our evolutionary past."
