期刊名称：Evolutionary Psychology: an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
印刷版ISSN：1474-7049
出版年度：2010
卷号：08
期号：01
出版社：Ian Pitchford, Ed.& Pub
摘要：Alan F. Dixson’s Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems presents an
incomplete and biased review of the evidence relevant to the evolution of human mating
systems. Despite a pretense of drawing on information from multiple disciplines, Dixson largely
ignores research conducted within evolutionary psychology as it pertains to human mating.
Instead, he focuses almost exclusively on comparative physiology and anatomy in primates to
build a case that human evolutionary history is characterized by monogamy and polygamy,
rather than the multi-male/multi-female mating system—and associated intense sperm
competition—of chimpanzees, for example. This is a well-established conclusion, however.
Humans, as a species, tend towards monogamy and polygamy, rather than multi-male/multi-
female mating systems, and Dixson builds a strong case for this long-known conclusion.
