Evolutionary psychologists suggest that mate selection and what people find attractive in
the opposite sex vary with gender because
a. males and females differ in their investments in reproduction and childrearing.
b. of gender differences in perception.
c. one gender matures earlier than the other.
d. it is better adapted to mating than the other.
e. of the different life spans of the genders.
a. males and females differ in their investments in reproduction and childrearing.
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