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Sexual selection and social roles: Two models or one?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2009

Pierre L. van den Berghe
Pierre L. van den Berghe
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Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3340. plvdb@u.washington.edu
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Abstract

Nothing is gained by opposing “sexual selection” and “social roles,” or by proclaiming the supremacy of one over the other. Instead, we should develop a unitary model of gene-culture coevolution, allowing for the complex interaction of both, and varying importance of each, all within our double, species-specific, adaptive, evolutionary track.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 291 - 292
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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