Menelaos Apostolou: 3 books
Sexual Selection Under Parental Choice
The Evolution of Human Mating Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Parents often disagree with their children over their choice of partner. Although the reasons may vary the outcome is very often one of conflict – a conflict peculiar to the human species. For the first time in one volume, Sexual Selection under Parental Choice employs an evolutionary perspective...
Feeling Good
An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness � the chances of survival and successful reproduction � and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness. Sometimes, however, individuals experience quite the opposite: feelings of...
Sexual Selection in Homo sapiens
Parental Control over Mating and the Opportunity Cost of Free Mate Choice
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species. Almost all scholarly effort focuses on sexual selection in non-human species and extrapolates the findings to the human one. However, human mating has a unique pattern not found in any other species, namely parental...