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Female guppies, quail and finches tend to mate with males that look like the males they have seen other females paired with. Such “mate choice copying” can pay off. If it is difficult to choose the best mating material, or takes a lot of time and energy, it makes sense to go with what works for the other girls. Yet although human mate selection suffers just such difficulties, there has been little evidence that women do this, until now.
2007-01-17
evolution attraction mating women choice copying sexRound the world, women today are having half as many children as their mothers did. And often it is the poorest and least educated women who are in the vanguard.
2010-06-11
woman choice overpopulation poverty revolutionHick's Law, named after British psychologist William Edmund Hick, or the Hick–Hyman Law (for Ray Hyman), describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has...