Talk:Hypergamy: Difference between revisions

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.