Bateman's principles and human sex roles
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In 1948, Angus J. Bateman reported a stronger relationship between mating and reproductive success in male fruit flies compared with females, and concluded that selection should universally favour 'an undiscriminating eagerness in the males and a discriminating passivity in the females' to obtain mates. The conventional view of promiscuous, undiscriminating males and coy, choosy females has also been applied to our own species. Here, we challenge the view that evolutionary theory prescribes stereotyped sex roles in human beings, firstly by reviewing Bateman's principles and recent sexual selection theory and, secondly, by examining data on mating behaviour and reproductive success in current and historic human populations. We argue that human mating strategies are unlikely to conform to a single universal pattern.
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Men's reproductive success is more variable than women's, especially in societies with polygyny or serial monogamy.
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- Authors
- Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N., & Mulder, M. B.
- Affiliations
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brown, Gillian R.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-06
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 297-304
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3096780
- OpenAlex
- W2083230307
- Cited by
- 295
- References
- 102
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 2.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2013-10-01)
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Keywords
- Bateman's principle, sexual selection, mating success, reproductive success, human mating strategies, female mate choice, fruit flies
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biological Evolution, Female, Gender Identity, Humans, Male, Models, Genetic, Reproduction, Selection, Genetic, Sex Characteristics
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