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This restlessness seems to be driven by an existential fear about access to resources and by an anxiety about being stuck with a man who isn't the best one available.<ref>https://therationalmale.com/2019/03/11/womens-existential-fear/</ref> | This restlessness seems to be driven by an existential fear about access to resources and by an anxiety about being stuck with a man who isn't the best one available.<ref>https://therationalmale.com/2019/03/11/womens-existential-fear/</ref> | ||
In terms of evolutionary biology, such instinctive behavior can be explained by [[Bateman's principle]] which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females. | In terms of evolutionary biology, such instinctive behavior can be explained by [[Bateman's principle]] which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females. | ||
Women are also physically weaker and have less power over resources, so hypergamy is in theory the most stable mate choice for women, because choosing the best man among the ones that promise continued investment a woman can attract, ensures that her partner cannot be outcompeted and threatened by an even better one. Researchers also suggested that hypergamy may arise from the premise that men naturally provide resources to women in return for exclusive access to sex which men desire as they want certainty that the offspring is theirs.<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | Women are also physically weaker and have less power over resources, so hypergamy is in theory the most stable mate choice for women, because choosing the best man among the ones that promise continued investment a woman can attract, ensures that her partner cannot be outcompeted and threatened by an even better one. Researchers also suggested that hypergamy may arise from the premise that men naturally provide resources to women in return for exclusive access to sex which men desire as they want certainty that the offspring is theirs (a problem that women do not face).<ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> | ||
<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | <ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | ||