Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 1999 - Volume , Issue 02  


Open Peer Commentary
Campbell: Staying alive

Evolutionary models of female intrasexual competition

Linda Mealey a1
a1 School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia lmealey@psy.uq.edu.au www.evolution.humb.unive.ac.at/info.html

Abstract

Female competition generally takes nonviolent form, but includes intense verbal and nonverbal harassment that has profound social and physiological consequences. The evolutionary ecological model of competitive reproductive suppression in human females, might profitably be applied to explain a range of contemporary phenomena, including anorexia.