Sexual selection with a culturally transmitted mating preference.

Abstract excerpt

Culturally transmitted mating preferences may generate sexual selection in human and protocultural animal species if they influence the intensity of selection on genetically transmitted physical and behavioral traits. Haploid and diploid two-"locus" models of sexual selection are presented in whi...

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Choice Behavior
• Cultural Characteristics
• Diploidy
• Female
• Gene Frequency
• Genotype
• Haplotypes
• Humans
• Male
• Models, Genetic
• Phenotype
• Prejudice
• Selection, Genetic
• Sexual Behavior, Animal
• Sexual Partners
• Socialization