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Evolutionary models of female intrasexual competition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Linda Mealey
Linda Mealey
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia lmealey@psy.uq.edu.au www.evolution.humb.unive.ac.at/info.html
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Abstract

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Female competition generally takes nonviolent form, but includes intense verbal and nonverbal harassment that has profound social and physiological consequences. The evolutionary ecological model of competitive reproductive suppression in human females, might profitably be applied to explain a range of contemporary phenomena, including anorexia.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 234
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press