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Khandis R. Blake
Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny
Resources are often central to the formation and persistence of human consortships, and to the evolutionary fitness consequences of those consortships. As a result, the distribution of resources within a society should influence the number and quality of mating opportunities an individual of given status/wealth experiences. In particular, in a wide variety of societies, both contemporary and historic, women have been shown to prefer mates of higher rather than lower status and wealth, a pattern known as ‘hypergyny’. Such status-dependent within-sex competition is influenced not only by the preferences individuals express but also by the distribution of resources within and between sexes. Em…
Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny
Documentation of code used for MS: "Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny", published in Evolution and Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.08.006 1. Overview The code provided is Matlab code. The function 'iteratedmatching.m' contains the main code for the simulation. When contained in the same folder (along with its sub-functions 'pickcandidates.m' and 'vectperm.m'), this code can be called from the scripts Figure_1.m, Figure_2.m etc. to produce the figures. 2. File list __________ Title: Main code File name: iteratedmatching.m Description: Main code for running simulations of iterative partner matching T…