Human sexual selection

D Puts - Current opinion in psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Sexual selection has been stronger in humans than is often assumed.•Ancestral
men competed primarily through force and threat of force.•Ancestral women competed …

Pair-bonding, fatherhood, and the role of testosterone: A meta-analytic review

NM Grebe, RE Sarafin, CR Strenth, S Zilioli - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Males of many species must allocate limited energy budgets between mating and parenting
effort. The Challenge Hypothesis provides a framework for understanding these life-history …

A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans

LH Lidborg, CP Cross, LG Boothroyd - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Humans are sexually dimorphic: men and women differ in body build and composition,
craniofacial structure, and voice pitch, likely mediated in part by developmental testosterone …

The relative importance of intra-and intersexual selection on human male sexually dimorphic traits

TL Kordsmeyer, J Hunt, DA Puts, J Ostner… - Evolution and Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent evidence suggests that in sexual selection on human males, intrasexual competition
plays a larger role than female choice. In a sample of men (N= 164), we sought to provide …

A comparison of salivary testosterone measurement using immunoassays and tandem mass spectrometry

KM Welker, B Lassetter, CM Brandes, S Prasad… - …, 2016 - Elsevier
Enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) are widely used to measure salivary testosterone. However,
little is known about how accurately different EIAs assess testosterone, partially because …

Relationship trajectories: A meta-theoretical framework and theoretical applications

PW Eastwick, EJ Finkel, JA Simpson - Psychological Inquiry, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article introduces a metatheoretical framework—the Relationship Trajectories
Framework—that conceptualizes how human mating relationships develop across their …

Endocrinology of human female sexuality, mating, and reproductive behavior

NV Motta-Mena, DA Puts - Hormones and Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Hormones orchestrate and coordinate human female sexual development, sexuality, and
reproduction in relation to three types of phenotypic changes: life history transitions such as …

Male sexual desire: An overview of biological, psychological, sexual, relational, and cultural factors influencing desire

FM Nimbi, F Tripodi, R Rossi… - Sexual medicine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Introduction The literature showed the need for a better understanding of the male sexual
response, which has historically been considered as simpler and more mechanistic …

Interest, personality, and sexual traits that distinguish heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual individuals: Are there two dimensions that underlie variations in sexual …

RA Lippa - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2020 - Springer
A diverse US sample comprising 1437 men and 1474 women was assessed on sexual
orientation, masculinity–femininity of occupational preferences (MF-Occ), self-ascribed …

Exogenous testosterone increases men's perceptions of their own physical dominance

LLM Welling, BJP Moreau, BM Bird, S Hansen… - …, 2016 - Elsevier
Men's testosterone is associated with several constructs that are linked to dominance rank,
such as risk-taking, mating success, and aggression. However, no study has directly tested …