Bateman's principles and human sex roles

摘要: In 1948, Angus J. Bateman reported a stronger relationship between mating and reproductive success in male fruit flies compared with females, concluded that selection should universally favour ‘an undiscriminating eagerness the males discriminating passivity females’ to obtain mates. The conventional view of promiscuous, coy, choosy females has also been applied our own species. Here, we challenge evolutionary theory prescribes stereotyped sex roles human beings, firstly by reviewing Bateman's principles recent sexual and, secondly, examining data on behaviour current historic populations. We argue strategies are unlikely conform single universal pattern.