We propose a new, evolutionary, game-theoretic model of conditional human mating strategies that integrates currently disconnected bodies of data into a single mathematically-explicit theory of human mating transactions. The model focuses on the problem of how much resource a male must provide...

Reproductive skew models attempt to predict the fraction of reproduction contributed by each individual that participates in a communal brood. One potential limitation of these models is that individuals make a single, fixed decision about group membership and reproductive allocation at the...