1. Mate selection
Women looked for a strong man who would be a good provider; men searched for a nurturing woman to make a home. ... Buss emphasizes the role of males and females in mate selection and asserts in later chapters that much has gone unchanged, "it is clear that many ancestral women required reliable signs of male commitment before consenting to sex, men who failed to commit would have suffered selectively on the mating market. ... As society changes, so does the role structure of the action principal. Self-concept is one of the underlying factors that put each person in their role and in modern ...
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