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Sex, health and behaviour
Author(s) -
Hunter Philip
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201541661
Subject(s) - biology
Sex might be more about defending against parasites and pathogens than about love. Sexual selection has evolved to select for specific behavioural traits and might therefore have driven human social and cultural evolution.