Meet the parents: Parent-offspring convergence and divergence in mate preferences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-258

  Perilloux, Carin ^a   Fleischman, Diana S ^a,b   Buss, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mate preferences; Parent offspring conflict; Parental influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249245721     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.039     Document Type: Article

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