Sentences with phrase «in mating preferences»

Wouldn't we expect these changing relationship mores to make a dent in the mating preferences of straight men and women?

The study of 4,764 men and 5,389 women in 33 countries and 37 cultures showed that sex differences in mate preferences are much larger than previously appreciated and stable across cultures.

The group also showed that the change in the microbiota resulted in a mating preference among the GM and wild mosquitoes.

Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster.

Stepping out of the caveman's shadow: Nations» gender gap predicts degree of sex differentiation in mate preferences.

Across both studies, researchers found that in countries with greater levels of gender equality, gender differences in mate preferences were smaller.

Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner?

This new score was utilized in the analyses to indicate parent - child discrepancy in mate preferences, with larger scores representing larger discrepancies.

A second improvement of Study 2 is that we replaced the Preferred Mate Attributes Scale [55] with the Ideal Partner Scale [68], allowing for a more refined measure of parent - child discrepancy in mate preferences.

Alverne and colleague Virpi Lumma reviewed and discussed new research supporting the conclusion that use of the pill by women disrupted their variation in mate preferences across their menstrual cycle.

For example, the entire literature on sex differences in mate preferences (e.g., men valuing attractiveness more than women) focuses on one trait at a time, and no one said that this literature was absurd because it tested hypotheses that focused on a single trait in isolation.

This study addresses two limitations in the mate preferences literature.

We also replicated sex differences and similarities in mate preferences and correlates with sociosexuality and mate value.

Not exact matches

Our best trio at the back is harder to figure out, although my preference would be to see Monreal fielded alongside Rob Holding and Laurent Koscielny, although Shkodran Mustafi should have a good enough understanding of his team - mates now to warrant challenging Holding or Monreal for his spot in the side.

If genes determine our mating preferences, how is it that these supposedly hardwired instincts erode in line with societies» and individual's gender - egalitarianism?

«Sometimes women just want to be rescued,» Your Tango declared after a survey of single women in New York City revealed a preference for firefighters (brawn) and Wall street execs (bucks) as potential perfect mates.

«Many want to believe that women and men are identical in their underlying psychology, but the genders differ strikingly in their evolved mate preferences in some domains,» said co-author of the study and psychology professor David Buss.

I don't think there's good evidence for the sex differences that I examine most in the book, namely in the design features of the mind underlying jealousy and mate preference.

As I point out in one section about male preferences, there's a tendency to focus on older males who reenter the mating market after divorce, and evolutionary psychologists take this to be pretty firmly clinching evidence in favor of their hypothesis.

Another, even more striking example of the gull chick principle is the idiosyncratic preference (demonstrated in the lab) that guppies show for potential mates that have been painted blue — even though in nature guppies are not blue.

The study discovered that satisfaction was not reliably dependent on how a partner compared with a person's idea of the perfect mate, but rather whether others in the mating pool better matched a person's ideal preferences.

UT Austin psychology researcher Daniel Conroy - Beam and his collaborators developed a method to test how mate preferences influence behavior and emotions in relationships in the study «What predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and mate retention intensity: mate preference fulfillment or mate value discrepancies?»

They found that people with partners difficult to replace, either because their partner was more desirable than themselves or their partner more closely matched their ideal preferences than others in the group, reported being happier and devoted more effort to mate retention.

It is the latest twist in the tale of the major histocompatibility complex, a set of immune system genes that influences mating preferences.

Coupling the extensive field study with in - depth network analyses revealed that parrots — at least those in captive groups — do show a strong preference for associating with a specific individual and are usually found nearby their mate.

It turned out that females almost always evolved preferences for highly competitive males, even if mating with uncompetitive but caring males would have resulted in more offspring.

A dose of antibiotics abolished these preferences — the flies went back to mating without regard to diet — suggesting that it was changes in gut microbes brought about by diet, and not diet alone, that drove the change.

«In more equal actual roles, men and women have more similar mate preferences,» Eagly says.

The surprising outcome, however, was that «within one generation, the flies developed mate preference for their own group, ignoring the others, and that this was dependent on the microbes in the gut that helped them utilize the food,» he said.

Macleod says the reason males show a strong preference for females who smell like they've eaten a lot is that mating with a fatter female may result in more offspring than with less well - fed females.

In a new study titled «Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with eacIn a new study titled «Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship withMating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with eacin the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationshipPreferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship withmating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with eacin response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationshippreferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with each.

The scientists point out that, in the wild (where there are no magnetic wingmen), the females» preference for local males» vibrations could be an early sign of speciation in the red mason bees: If the females of one subspecies stop mating with the other subspecies entirely, the two lineages may eventually become incompatible and diverge into two separate species.

The new study looked at mate preferences in two species: rainwater killifish (Lucania parva) and bluefin killifish (Lucania goodei).

The results were clear - cut and unambiguous: the aroused females did not show any particular preference for large males and mated as if randomly, leading the authors to conclude that once sexually aroused, females have no preference in terms of mates.

Paleoanthropologists Jean - Jacques Hublin and Luke Premo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tested this hypothesis by simulating how mating preferences alter gene flow between individuals in different groups.

Our results demonstrate the importance of considering mating preference in population demography.

To further test the consequence of mating preference on the evolution of menopause, we modeled the effect of mutations having delayed age of onset, using stochastic, computer simulation of a population with constant size, without pre-existing diminished fertility in females, and involving mutations that affected fertility as well as mortality.

«It has historically been a challenge to understand how mating preferences for ornamental traits can evolve when every individual succeeds in getting a mate,» Stern explains, in part because the seemingly simple selection process of monogamous pairs, where mates couple up and remove themselves from the broader gene - swapping pool for good, is tricky to handle mathematically.

In this model, an early decline in female fertility was driven by a shift in male mating preferencIn this model, an early decline in female fertility was driven by a shift in male mating preferencin female fertility was driven by a shift in male mating preferencin male mating preference.

Model AP involved an age indifferent preference in the formation of mating pairs («All Pairs», matrix MijAP, Table S2), whereas model YP («Young Pairs», matrix MijYP, Table S3) involved preferences between only younger males and younger females (models used indicated by bars in Fig. 1).

These produce a sex - specific decline in survival that parallels mating preferences.

Elevation related differences in female mate preferences in mountain chickadees: are smart chickadees choosier?

Pollack [59] described a two - sex model in which a «mating preference matrix», [Mij], connected male and female life histories.

However, perhaps contrary to previous work, we identify cases in which positive assortment can decrease the variance because mate preferences co-occur in multiple populations — the parental and hybrid populations.

Fish species used in laboratory studies, such as zebrafish, sticklebacks, and mosquitofish, respond to changes in stripe and color patterns of their conspecifics, and these features have been associated to their shoaling preferences, mating choices, and social ranks, respectively [18], [48], [49], [51].

Mate choice preferences in an intergroup context: Evidence for a threat - management system among women.

Repeatability of female preferences in a unisexual - bisexual mating system.

In a 2010 paper in PNAS, Sharon concluded that symbiotic bacteria could alter mating preferenceIn a 2010 paper in PNAS, Sharon concluded that symbiotic bacteria could alter mating preferencein PNAS, Sharon concluded that symbiotic bacteria could alter mating preferences.

Female preference for a mate in orb - web spiders is often measured by latency to move onto the mating thread (as an indication of willingness to mate) and copula duration (under female control, with the potential to limit the amount of sperm males can transfer)[3], [11].

If you had your preference, you'd mate for life, and many a Venus in Cancer weds early, even to a childhood sweetheart.