Emergent Patterns of Mate Choice in Human Populations

Artificial Life

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-417

  Simão, Jorge ^a   Todd, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age at marriage; Assortative mating; Courtship; Emergence; Human mate choice

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ASSORTIVE MATING; SOCIAL ECOLOGY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0344465339     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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