volume 40 issue 5 pages 479-491

Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation

Daniel Conroy-Beam
James R Roney
Aaron W. Lukaszewski
David M. Buss
Kelly Asao
Agnieszka Sorokowska
Piotr Sorokowski
Toivo Aavik
Grace Akello
Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba
Charlotte Alm
Naumana Amjad
Afifa Anjum
Chiemezie S. Atama
Derya Atamtürk Duyar
Richard Ayebare
Carlota Batres
Mons Bendixen
Aicha Bensafia
Anna Bertoni
Boris Bizumic
Mahmoud Boussena
Marina Butovskaya
Seda Can
Katarzyna Cantarero
Antonin Carrier
Hakan Çetinkaya
Ilona Croy
Rosa María Cueto
Marcin Czub
Silvia Donato
Daria Dronova
Seda Dural
Izzet Duyar
Berna Ertugrul
Agustín Espinosa
Ignacio Estevan
Carla Sofia Esteves
Luxi Fang
Tomasz Frackowiak
Jorge Contreras-Garduño
Karina Ugalde González
Farida Guemaz
Petra Gyuris
Mária Halamová
Iskra Herak
Marina Horvat
Ivana Hromatko
Chin-Ming Hui
Raffaella Iafrate
Jas Laile Jaafar
Feng Jiang
Konstantinos Kafetsios
Tina Kavčič
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
Nicolas Kervyn
Ha Truong Thi Khanh
Imran Ahmed Khilji
Nils C. Köbis
Hoang Moc Lan
András Láng
Georgina R. Lennard
Ernesto León
Torun Lindholm
Trinh Doan Tuan Linh
Giulia Lopez
Nguyen Van Luot
Alvaro Mailhos
Zoi Manesi
Rocio Martinez
Sarah L. McKerchar
Norbert Meskó
Girishwar Misra
Conal Monaghan
Emanuel C. Mora
Alba Moya-Garófano
Bojan Musil
Jean C. Natividade
Agnieszka Niemczyk
George Nizharadze
Elisabeth Oberzaucher
A. Oleszkiewicz
Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee
Ike E. Onyishi
Baris Özener
Ariela Francesca Pagani
Vilmante Pakalniskiene
Miriam Parise
Farid Pazhoohi
Annette Pisanski
Katarzyna Pisanski
Edna Lúcia Tinoco Ponciano
Camelia Popa
Muhammad Rizwan
Mario Sainz
Svjetlana Salkičević
Ruta Sargautyte
Ivan Sarmány-Schuller
Susanne Schmehl
Shivantika Sharad
Razi Sultan Siddiqui
Franco Simonetti
Stanislava Yordanova Stoyanova
Marco Antonio Correa Varella
Christin-Melanie Vauclair
Luis Diego Vega
Dwi Ajeng Widarini
Gyesook Yoo
Marta Zaťková
Maja Zupančič
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2019-09-01
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR1.355
CiteScore5.8
Impact factor3.2
ISSN10905138, 18790607
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Abstract
Mate choice lies close to differential reproduction, the engine of evolution. Patterns of mate choice consequently have power to direct the course of evolution. Here we provide evidence suggesting one pattern of human mate choice—the tendency for mates to be similar in overall desirability—caused the evolution of a structure of correlations that we call the d factor. We use agent-based models to demonstrate that assortative mating causes the evolution of a positive manifold of desirability, d, such that an individual who is desirable as a mate along any one dimension tends to be desirable across all other dimensions. Further, we use a large cross-cultural sample with n = 14,478 from 45 countries around the world to show that this d-factor emerges in human samples, is a cross-cultural universal, and is patterned in a way consistent with an evolutionary history of assortative mating. Our results suggest that assortative mating can explain the evolution of a broad structure of human trait covariation.
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@article{2019_Conroy-Beam,
author = {Daniel Conroy-Beam and James R Roney and Aaron W. Lukaszewski and David M. Buss and Kelly Asao and Agnieszka Sorokowska and Piotr Sorokowski and Toivo Aavik and Grace Akello and Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba and Charlotte Alm and Naumana Amjad and Afifa Anjum and Chiemezie S. Atama and Derya Atamtürk Duyar and Richard Ayebare and Carlota Batres and Mons Bendixen and Aicha Bensafia and Anna Bertoni and Boris Bizumic and Mahmoud Boussena and Marina Butovskaya and Seda Can and Katarzyna Cantarero and Antonin Carrier and Hakan Çetinkaya and Ilona Croy and Rosa María Cueto and Marcin Czub and Silvia Donato and Daria Dronova and Seda Dural and Izzet Duyar and Berna Ertugrul and Agustín Espinosa and Ignacio Estevan and Carla Sofia Esteves and Luxi Fang and Tomasz Frackowiak and Jorge Contreras-Garduño and Karina Ugalde González and Farida Guemaz and Petra Gyuris and Mária Halamová and Iskra Herak and Marina Horvat and Ivana Hromatko and Chin-Ming Hui and Raffaella Iafrate and others},
title = {Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation},
journal = {Evolution and Human Behavior},
year = {2019},
volume = {40},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {sep},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.003},
number = {5},
pages = {479--491},
doi = {10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.003}
}
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Conroy-Beam, Daniel, et al. “Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation.” Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 40, no. 5, Sep. 2019, pp. 479-491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.003.