Sweet savage love: FA, BO, and SES in the EEA

Proxies of mate value must he evolutionarily salient. Gangestad & Simpson ( G&S) have made a good case that fluctuating asymmetry is an important proxy of male male value that correlates well with genetic and developmental qua lity. The use of financial variables as proxies for male investment ability by Gangestad, Simpson, and virtually every other investigator of human mat ing in evolutionary perspective, is, however, more problematic.