2) in many primate societies males prefer multiparous females over younger ones...already having infants and having a fully mature physiology. There are also many variants on what humans "prefer" as attractants.https://twitter.com/TangledWing/status/1031547698116218881 …
Ev psych includes the radical idea that human mating systems might be different from chimpanzee mating systems. You're deliberately ducking the issue, and you know it.
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Ducking what issue? I thought this conversation was about to what extent we can say that human mating patterns are invariant. Chimpanzee data, cross-cultural anthro & historical data are all important for understanding that issue.
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Nobody claims anthropoid mating patterns are 'invariant'. Most ev psych people don't even claim human mating patterns are 'invariant'. But we are willing to note cross-cultural patterns when the data are overwhelming. Is
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