Foo Yong Zhi, Simmons Leigh W, Rhodes Gillian
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia; Centre for Evolutionary Biology and School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia.
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology , University of Western Australia , 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia , Australia.
R Soc Open Sci. 2017 Jan 25;4(1):160603. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160603. eCollection 2017 Jan.
Health has been claimed to play an important role in human sexual selection, especially in terms of mate choice. Our preferences for attractive individuals are said to represent evolved adaptations for finding high-quality, healthy mates. If this is true, then we expect health to predict mating success in humans. We tested this hypothesis using several important physiological indicators of health, including immune function, oxidative stress and semen quality, and self-reported measures of sexual behaviour that contribute to mating success. In contrast to our hypothesis, we did not find a relationship between the physiological measures of health and sexual behaviour. Our results provide little support for claims that health, at least the health measures we used, increases mating success in relatively healthy humans.
健康被认为在人类性选择中起着重要作用,尤其是在配偶选择方面。据说我们对有吸引力个体的偏好代表了为寻找高质量、健康配偶而进化出的适应性。如果这是真的,那么我们预计健康状况能预测人类的交配成功率。我们使用了几个重要的健康生理指标来检验这一假设,包括免疫功能、氧化应激和精液质量,以及有助于交配成功的性行为自我报告测量。与我们的假设相反,我们没有发现健康的生理指标与性行为之间的关系。我们的结果几乎没有支持这样的说法,即健康,至少是我们所使用的健康指标,能提高相对健康人群的交配成功率。