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This would likely hold true to societies without formalized polygyny and would be reflected in serial monogamy, mating skew, etc. LHS would predict that fast LH women would care more about rapid access to resources and perhaps greater genetic diversity and physical attractiveness in their potential mates. There is evidence for assortative mating in LHS (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490800600206) also, so they also tend to select those with short-term strategies that mirror their own, which would be generally expected to be associated with lower resource holding potential, due to impulsivity, short-time preference, lower conscientiousness etc, perhaps being fast life history traits or negatively linked to the proposed subfactors of ''k'', in particular one would thing super-k and the GFP would be positively associated with income. [[User:Altmark22|Altmark22]] ([[User talk:Altmark22|talk]]) 13:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC) | This would likely hold true to societies without formalized polygyny and would be reflected in serial monogamy, mating skew, etc. LHS would predict that fast LH women would care more about rapid access to resources and perhaps greater genetic diversity and physical attractiveness in their potential mates. There is evidence for assortative mating in LHS (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490800600206) also, so they also tend to select those with short-term strategies that mirror their own, which would be generally expected to be associated with lower resource holding potential, due to impulsivity, short-time preference, lower conscientiousness etc, perhaps being fast life history traits or negatively linked to the proposed subfactors of ''k'', in particular one would thing super-k and the GFP would be positively associated with income. [[User:Altmark22|Altmark22]] ([[User talk:Altmark22|talk]]) 13:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC) | ||
I've always had a problem with the genetic diversity argument amongst offspring argument as an explanation for the promiscuity of some females. For one, the advantages of having a diverse set of offspring isn't clear; having variable offspring also implies neccesarilly implies the survival rates for each of your offspring would be variable as well. Thus women who heavilly invest in the offspring of a particular male who is well adapted will do far better and have greater reproductive success than women whom invest in the offspring of a variety men each of which will have much greater variability in survival. | |||
To illustrate, let's say you're making a cake and require eggs and the word around town is that some eggs will make your cake taste better than others. However in your particular town there are only two types of eggs, chicken eggs and ostrich eggs. You decide to make a cake with ostrich eggs, your neighbour with chicken eggs and your other neighbour uses both. The result being that your cake, because it was made with ostrich eggs, was the most delicious; your first neighbour's cake the least delicious and your second neighbour's cake intermediate. As we can see from this example, the women who mixed eggs did better than the woman with chicken eggs, but wasn't because she had mixed her eggs but rather because some of the eggs she used were of a better quality (cuckolding for better genes); were as the women whom only invested in ostrich eggs (monopolizing an alpha-male) did the best overall. If the women whom did the best overall decided to mix her batch just for the sake of mixing, the cake would turn out worse than if she did not. | |||
Another flaw I find in the genetic diversity argument would be women's reaction to ethnic men. If genetic diversity amongst one's offspring was neccesarily conducisive to female reproductive success, then we should find that women would go batshit crazy for Indian men, Asian men, Latino's and Black men as they would contribute a hell of lot of diversity. Not only is this not the case but the reverse is true, women have a preference for men that look like them. Come to think of it, in all of the literature I've read on evolution pertaining to human mating systems, I've only ever seen authors posit that genetic diversity amongst offspring contribute to reproductive success and never demonstrate it's benifits. "Genetic diversity amongst offspring contributes to reproductive success. How? It just does bucko." | |||
As a Final point, is the genetic diversity argument essentially the same as the cuckold your husband for good genes argument written differently as a woman whom does cuckold her husband for good genes will neccesarilly have diversity amongst her offspring. However the increase in reproductive success doesn't originate from the diversity but rather the superior quality. Could you even distinguish the two phenomenon if this were the case? No, no you could not; this essentially means they're the same phenomenon but one of them is a false conclusion of the observation. | |||
-K | |||