TY - JOUR
T1 - Resources, dimorphism, sexual selection and mathematics achievement
AU - Kornbrot, D.
N1 - Copyright Cambridge University Press [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Geary's model is a worthy effort, but ambiguous on important issues. It ignores differential resource allocation, although this follows directly from sexual selection via differential parental investment. Dimorphism in primary traits is arbitrarily attributed to sexual selection via intramale competition, rather than direct evolutionary pressures. Dubious predictions are made about the consequences of raising mathematics achievement.
AB - Geary's model is a worthy effort, but ambiguous on important issues. It ignores differential resource allocation, although this follows directly from sexual selection via differential parental investment. Dimorphism in primary traits is arbitrarily attributed to sexual selection via intramale competition, rather than direct evolutionary pressures. Dubious predictions are made about the consequences of raising mathematics achievement.
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X00042564
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X00042564
M3 - Article
VL - 19
SP - 259
EP - 260
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
SN - 0140-525X
IS - 2
ER -