mate selection

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• - News article by Steve Connor describes research indicating a link between stature and reproductive fitness in males.
  
• - A hypothesis that suggests eating disorders stem from intense female intra-sexual competition for mates.
  
• - NPR radio discussion on the assumption that women have evolved physically and psychologically to be weaker, less assertive, and monogamous, while men are naturally stronger, aggressive, and promiscuous.
  
• - Riadh T. Abed argues that the roots of some eating disorders may be sexual competition. Published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology 71(4):525-547.
  
• - An NPR discussion with Deborah Blum on how commercial advertising exploits adaptations associated with mate finding.
  
• - Geoffrey Miller provides an overview of the subject matter and genetics may provide important insight into mate finding behavior.
  
• - Scientists have solved the age-old mystery of why the human male is monogamous.