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A Model of Human Mate Choice with Courtship That Predicts Population Patterns

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Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2001)

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We present a new model of human mate choice incorporating non-negligible courtship time. The courtship period is used by individuals to strategically swap to better partners when they become available. Our model relies on realistic assumptions about human psychological constraints and the specifics of the human social environment to make predictions about population level patterns that are supported by empirical data from the social sciences.

This work was supported by a PRAXIS XXI scholarship. Thanks also to Chantilly Lodewijks for emotional and financial support.

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  1. CENTRIA - Computer Science Department, FCT - New University of Lisbon, 2825 - 114, Monte da Caparica, Portugal

    Jorge Simão

  2. Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Peter M. Todd

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, 74601, Opava, Czech Republic

    Jozef Kelemen  & Petr Sosík  & 

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Simão, J., Todd, P.M. (2001). A Model of Human Mate Choice with Courtship That Predicts Population Patterns. In: Kelemen, J., Sosík, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44811-X_40

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