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Sex, sex differences, and the new polygyny

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

John Marshall Townsend*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY13244-1090

Abstract:

The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI) was not designed to illuminate the sexually dimorphic mental mechanisms posited by evolutionary theories. Its results are therefore open to competing interpretations. Measures designed to tap the thought processes surrounding sexual experience generate findings that are more compatible with evolutionary than with social structural theory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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