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mate-choice copying: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary psychology

choosing a mate partly because others have chosen that individual.

In evolutionary psychology, mate-choice copying refers to choosing a mate partly because others have chosen that individual. This meaning comes from Dugatkin (1992) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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Dugatkin, L. A. (1992). Sexual Selection and Imitation: Females Copy the Mate Choice of Others. The American Naturalist, 139(6), 1384-1389. https://doi.org/10.1086/285392

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