Mulder Monique Borgerhoff
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Group in Ecology and Center for Population Biology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2004 Jan;19(1):3-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2003.11.002.
Distinct differences in the behaviour and preferences of men and women have conventionally been attributed to Trivers' powerful insights regarding the impact of parental investment on sexual selection and mating systems. This has spawned a huge literature about the evolutionary significance of human sex differences. But are men and women really so different? An elegant new study shows that men and women are strikingly similar in their mate preferences. Have conventional models blinded us to the obvious, and precluded the posing of far more interesting questions?
传统上，男性和女性在行为和偏好上的明显差异被归因于特里弗斯对亲代投资对性选择和交配系统影响的深刻见解。这催生了大量关于人类性别差异进化意义的文献。但男性和女性真的如此不同吗？一项精妙的新研究表明，男性和女性在配偶偏好上惊人地相似。传统模型是否让我们对显而易见的事实视而不见，并阻碍了提出更有趣的问题呢？
