id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_myft2o5ionhehkgstitmfey47e David A. Puts Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans 2010 19 .pdf application/pdf 17587 1696 58 Literature in evolutionary psychology suggests that mate choice has been the primary mechanism of sexual selection in humans, but this anatomical considerations, predict that contest competition should have been the primary mechanism of sexual selection in men. Men's traits are better designed for contest competition than for other sexual selection mechanisms; size, imperfect, and female mate choice, sperm competition, and sexual coercion also likely shaped men's traits. probably central in women's mating competition because ancestral females could not constrain the choices of larger and more aggressive Keywords: Evolutionary psychology; Contest competition; Mate choice; Mating; Sexual selection Kimbel, Lague, & Harmon, 2005; Reno, Meindl, McCollum, have been shown to prefer dominant male behavior in shortterm/sexual mating contexts and during the fertile phase of in shaping men's traits, male mate choice is expected to Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary The evolution of female sexuality and mate selection in ./cache/work_myft2o5ionhehkgstitmfey47e.pdf ./txt/work_myft2o5ionhehkgstitmfey47e.txt