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promiscuity
(redirected from Extra-pair mating)

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promiscuity
Social medicine The engaging in multiple and indiscriminate sexual relationships


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A mating tactic is a specific act or behavior that promotes mating in some way, such as engaging in extra-pair mating, signaling sexual or romantic interest, promoting one's physical attributes, or devaluing competition.
Also, women's preferences for hypothesized good-genes indicators, including both symmetry and masculinity, are elevated during the highest fertility phase of a woman's cycle--the time at which the genetic benefits of extra-pair mating are maximized (Gangestad & Thornhill, 1998; Johnston et al.
 
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