Sexual Selection in Man-A Comment
- 1 November 1959
- journal article
- letter
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 93 (873) , 389-391
- https://doi.org/10.1086/282102
Abstract
Author speculates that early timing and psychosymbolic content of the Oedipal reactions in man would be intelligible if these evolved in pair-mating animals with long maternal dependence, in which the genitalia had replaced secondary sex characters as primary sexual recognition signals: their evolutionary retention in man might result from their effects on character structure and social behaviour either through direct or indirect selection.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Speculative Consideration of Certain Possible Forms of Sexual Selection in ManThe American Naturalist, 1959
- Idiopathic Sexual Precocity in the MalePsychosomatic Medicine, 1955
- TWIN AND SIBSHIP STUDY OF OVERT MALE HOMOSEXUALITY1952