Randy Thornhill
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Randy Thornhill is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, and was president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society from 2011 to 2013. He is known for his evolutionary explanation of rape as well as his work on insect mating systems and the parasite-stress theory.
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Published Works
- The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems (1984) (1875)
- The evolution of human sexuality. (1996) (1167)
- Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: the role of symmetry and averageness. (1994) (1062)
- Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism (2008) (753)
- Facial attractiveness (1999) (740)
- A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion (2000) (655)
- Cryptic Female Choice and Its Implications in the Scorpionfly Harpobittacus nigriceps (1983) (639)
- Human facial beauty (1993) (581)
- Facial attractiveness, symmetry and cues of good genes (1999) (542)
- Darwinian aesthetics: sexual selection and the biology of beauty (2003) (499)
- Fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection. (1994) (495)
- Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women (2006) (469)
- Menstrual cycle variation in women's preferences for the scent of symmetrical men (1998) (464)
- Bilateral Symmetry and Sexual Selection: A Meta‐Analysis (1998) (428)
- The scent of symmetry: A human sex pheromone that signals fitness? (1999) (421)
- Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: The cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity (2012) (411)
- Facial attractiveness, developmental stability, and fluctuating asymmetry. (1994) (404)
- DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY, DISEASE AND MEDICINE (1997) (393)
- Human Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Behavior (1994) (392)
- Human rape: An evolutionary analysis (1983) (358)
- Changes in women's sexual interests and their partner's mate–retention tactics across the menstrual cycle: evidence for shifting conflicts of interest (2002) (350)
- The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry (1997) (335)
- Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women (2003) (326)
- Sexual Selection and Paternal Investment in Insects (1976) (323)
- Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness in relation to skin texture and color. (2001) (310)
- The Body and Face of Woman: One Ornament that Signals Quality? (1999) (303)
- Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability (2010) (302)
- Parasites and mate choice in red jungle fowl. (1990) (287)
- Sexual Selection and Nuptial Feeding Behavior in Bittacus apicalis (Insecta: Mecoptera) (1976) (278)
- The evolutionary psychology of men's coercive sexuality (1992) (270)
- Human female orgasm and mate fluctuating asymmetry (1995) (257)
- Pape in Panorpa scorpionflies and a general rape hypothesis (1980) (242)
- The Role of Male Ornaments and Courtship Behavior in Female Mate Choice of Red Jungle Fowl (1990) (235)
- Male-male competition, ornamentation and the role of testosterone in sexual selection in red jungle fowl (1990) (223)
- Male parental care, differential parental investment by females and sexual selection (1998) (205)
- Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries (2009) (198)
- Women's sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle depend on primary partner developmental instability (2005) (195)
- Panorpa (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) Scorpionflies: Systems for Understanding Resource-Defense Polygyny and Alternative Male Reproductive Efforts (1981) (190)
- Fluctuating asymmetry and psychometric intelligence (1997) (187)
- The evolution of monogamy and concealed ovulation in humans (1979) (186)
- Assortative sociality, limited dispersal, infectious disease and the genesis of the global pattern of religion diversity (2008) (186)
- Facial masculinity and fluctuating asymmetry (2003) (185)
- Human sexual selection and developmental stability. (1997) (180)
- Major Histocompatibility Complex Alleles, Sexual Responsivity, and Unfaithfulness in Romantic Couples (2006) (178)
- The 2nd:4th digit ratio and asymmetry of hand performance in Jamaican children (2000) (174)
- Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always: the moderating role of extrapair sexual interest. (2006) (167)
- Female preference for the pheromone of males with low fluctuating asymmetry in the Japanese scorpionfly (Panorpa japonica: Mecoptera) (1992) (165)
- Adaptations to Ovulation (2005) (160)
- Biology of the Mecoptera (1983) (160)
- Fluctuating asymmetry and the mating system of the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica (1992) (159)
- The mystery of female beauty (1999) (148)
- Effects of experimental manipulation of male secondary sex characters on female mate preference in red jungle fowl (1992) (148)
- Evolution of animal genitalia: patterns of phenotypic and genotypic variation and condition dependence of genital and non-genital morphology in water strider (Heteroptera: Gerridae: Insecta) (1998) (148)
- Breast asymmetry, sexual selection, and human reproductive success (1995) (136)
- Genetic sire effects on the fighting ability of sons and daughters and mating success of sons in a scorpionfly (1992) (130)
- MECHANISMS OF FEMALE CHOICE IN RED JUNGLE FOWL (1990) (129)
- Zoonotic and Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Relation to Human Personality and Societal Values: Support for the Parasite-Stress Model (2010) (127)
- The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality (2014) (125)
- The notal organ of the scorpionfly (Panorpa vulgaris): an adaptation to coerce mating duration (1991) (119)
- Adaptive Female-Mimicking Behavior in a Scorpionfly (1979) (112)
- MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF MATING STRATEGIES IN INSECTS (1979) (106)
- A parasite‐driven wedge: infectious diseases may explain language and other biodiversity (2008) (106)
- An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following rape:: I. The effects of victim's age and marital status (1990) (97)
- Women’s Luteal-Phase Sexual Proceptivity and the Functions of Extended Sexuality (2013) (96)
- Sexual selection within mating swarms of the lovebug, Plecia nearctica (Diptera: Bibionidae) (1980) (87)
- Does infectious disease cause global variation in the frequency of intrastate armed conflict and civil war? (2010) (87)
- The relative importance of size and asymmetry in sexual selection (1998) (86)
- Alternative Female Choice Tactics in the Scorpionfly Hylobittacus apicalis(Mecoptera) and Their Implications (1984) (86)
- The evolution of psychological pain. (1989) (85)
- Evolution of animal genitalia: morphological correlates of fitness components in a water strider (1997) (82)
- Original Articles Hormonal correlates of women's mid-cycle preference for the scent of symmetry (2008) (82)
- Female faces and bodies: N-dimensional feature space and attractiveness. (2002) (79)
- Jamaican Symmetry Project: long-term study of fluctuating asymmetry in rural Jamaican children. (1999) (76)
- Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception: Are There Really Sperm to Spare? [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (70)
- Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics (2003) (70)
- Parasites And Male Ornaments In Free-Ranging And Captive Red Jungle Fowl (1990) (69)
- FIGHTING AND ASSESSMENT IN HARPOBITTACUS SCORPIONFLIES (1984) (69)
- 5 – Alternative Hypotheses for Traits Believed to Have Evolved by Sperm Competition (1984) (67)
- The Biological Significance of Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Selection: A Reply to Palmer (1999) (65)
- MATE CHOICE IN HYLOBITTACUS APICALIS (INSECTA: MECOPTERA) AND ITS RELATION TO SOME MODELS OF FEMALE CHOICE (1980) (65)
- An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following rape:: II. The effects of stranger, friend, and family-member offenders (1990) (64)
- A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men's sexual behaviour (2001) (64)
- The concept of an evolved adaptation. (1997) (63)
- Men's facial masculinity predicts changes in their female partners' sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle, whereas men's intelligence does not (2010) (63)
- Women's preferences for men's scents associated with testosterone and cortisol levels: Patterns across the ovulatory cycle (2013) (61)
- An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following rape. III: Effects of force and violence (1990) (61)
- Parasite Prevalence and the Distribution of Intelligence among the States of the USA. (2011) (60)
- An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following human (Homo sapiens) rape: IV. The effect of the nature of the sexual assault. (1991) (59)
- Why Men Rape (2000) (57)
- Fertility in the cycle predicts women's interest in sexual opportunism (2010) (56)
- Female reproductive variation in a nuptial-feeding spider, Pisaura mirabilis (1986) (56)
- Symposium: Insect Behavioral Ecology--'79: Competitive, Charming Males and Choosy Females: Was Darwin Correct? (1980) (55)
- What is the relevance of attachment and life history to political values (2007) (55)
- The parasite-stress theory of sociality, the behavioral immune system, and human social and cognitive uniqueness. (2014) (52)
- Parasite stress promotes homicide and child maltreatment (2011) (51)
- Fertility Advertisement in Birds: a Means of Inciting Male‐male Competition? (2010) (49)
- The analysis of fluctuating asymmetry redux: the robustness of parametric statistics (1998) (48)
- Reproductive Behavior of the Lovebug, Plecia nearctica (Diptera: Bibionidae) (1976) (43)
- The Relative Importance of Intra- and Interspecific Competition in Scorpionfly Mating Systems (1987) (42)
- Why men have shorter lives than women: Effects of resource availability, infectious disease, and senescence (2009) (41)
- A classification of possible routes of Darwinian evolution. (2000) (39)
- Direct and indirect tests for publication bias: asymmetry and sexual selection (2005) (39)
- The direction of mothers' and daughters' preferences and the heritability of male ornaments in red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) (1993) (38)
- Scorpionflies as kleptoparasites of web-building spiders (1975) (38)
- Physical attractiveness and the theory of sexual selection: Results from five populations (1998) (38)
- On the Adaptive Origins and Maladaptive Consequences of Human Inbreeding: Parasite Prevalence, Immune Functioning, and Consanguineous Marriage (2010) (37)
- The jungle fowl hen's cackle incites male competition. (1988) (37)
- Evolutionary Life History Perspective on Rape. (2004) (36)
- Symposium: Insect Behavioral Ecology--'83: Scientific Methodology in Entomology (1984) (36)
- The Evolution of Sexual Differences in Insects (1986) (33)
- Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity (2008) (32)
- Competition and Coexistence among Panorpa Scorpionflies (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) (1980) (31)
- Developmental instability is heritable (1997) (31)
- Sexual Selection in the Black-tipped Hangingfly (1980) (30)
- MHC, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men andwomen (2001) (28)
- Matriliny and sexual selection and conflict (1985) (28)
- The parasite-stress theory may be a general theory of culture and sociality (2012) (27)
- Stress and Human Reproductive Behavior: Attractiveness, Women's Sexual Development, Postpartum Depression, and Baby's Cry (1998) (26)
- Do Women Have Evolved Adaptation for Extra-Pair Copulation? (2003) (25)
- Intersexual conflict across women's ovulatory cycle (2014) (24)
- Fluctuating asymmetry, interspecific aggression and male mating tactics in two species of Japanese scorpionflies (1992) (22)
- Nonlinearity and the importance of fluctuating asymmetry as a predictor of fitness (1999) (21)
- Male Pair-Formation Pheromones in Panorpa Scorpionflies (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) (1979) (20)
- The Comparative Method in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species Research (2013) (19)
- Sexually Selected Predatory and Mating Behavior of the Hangingfly, Bittacus stigmaterus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) (1978) (18)
- The comparative predatory and sexual behavior of hanging flies (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) (1977) (18)
- Some Arthropod Predators and Parasites of Adult Scorpionflies (Mecoptera) (1978) (16)
- Straw men and fairy tales: Evaluating reactions to a natural history of rape (2003) (15)
- The parasite‐driven‐wedge model of parapatric speciation (2013) (15)
- Nest Defense by Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus) Hens: The Roles of Renesting Potential, Parental Experience and Brood Reproductive Value (2010) (14)
- A Posse of Good Citizens Brings Outlaw Evolutionists to Justice. A Response to Evolution, Gender, and Rape. Edited by Cheryl Brown Travis. (2003). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2003) (13)
- Procrustean analysis of fluctuating asymmetry in the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini Claparede (Astigmata: Acaridae) (2003) (12)
- Sexual Selection in Primates: Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: investigations of design (2004) (12)
- The Functional Design and Phylogeny of Women’s Sexuality (2015) (12)
- EARLY HISTORY OF SEXUAL SELECTION THEORY. (1986) (11)
- Women's Sexual Interests Across the Ovulatory Cycle (2015) (11)
- Garver shifting conflicts of interest retention tactics across the menstrual cycle : evidence for − Changes in women ' s sexual interests and their partner ' s mate (2002) (11)
- Dispersal of Plecia Nearctica (Diptera: Bibionidae) (1976) (10)
- The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values (2014) (10)
- Early History of Sexual Selection Theory@@@Evolution by Sexual Selection Theory: Prior to 1900. (1986) (9)
- Commentary on Hackman, J., & Hruschka, D. (2013). Fast life histories, not pathogens, account for state-level variation in homicide, child maltreatment, and family ties in the U.S. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34,118–124 (2013) (8)
- The Parasite-Stress Theory of Sociality and the Behavioral Immune System (2015) (7)
- Collectivism–Individualism, Family Ties, and Philopatry (2014) (7)
- Human female copulatory orgasm: a human adaptation or phylogenetic holdover (1996) (7)
- Sexual Selection and Insect Mating Behavior (1983) (6)
- Testing the psychological pain hypothesis for postnatal depression (2017) (6)
- Rape and evolution: A Reply to our critics (2002) (5)
- Pathogen-Stress Theory (2020) (5)
- Biology and Reproductive Behavior of Dilophus Sayi (Diptera: Bibionidae) (1976) (4)
- Evolutionary Theory Led to Evidence for a Male Sex Pheromone That Signals Symmetry (2003) (4)
- Book Review:Insect Behavior. Robert W. Matthews, Janice R. Matthews (1979) (4)
- Background and Overview of the Book (2014) (4)
- Parasite Stress, Collectivism, and Human Warfare (2012) (4)
- Mutant Weeds of Iowa: V. S-triazine Resistant Setaria faberi Herrm (1993) (3)
- Is There Psychological Adaptation to Rape? (1994) (3)
- 3. Sexual Selection Theory (1983) (3)
- uathg asymmetry and sexual selection (1994) (2)
- Serial Rape: An Evolutionary Perspective (2000) (2)
- Traumatic mating increases anchorage of mating male and reduces female remating duration and fecundity in a scorpionfly species (2021) (2)
- Stress and human behavior : Attractiveness, women's sexual development, post- partum depression, and baby's cry (1998) (2)
- The study of men's coercive sexuality: What course should it take? (1992) (1)
- 8. Male Mating Systems (1983) (1)
- The Parasite-Stress Theory of Cultural Values and Sociality (2020) (1)
- Reproductive success versus evidence of design (2017) (1)
- Mating Systems, Mate Choice, Marriage, Sexual Behavior, and Inbreeding (2014) (1)
- Incest: A biosocial view: By Joseph Shepher, New York: Academic, 213 pp., $24.50 (1984) (1)
- 1. Evolutionary Hypotheses and Tests (1983) (1)
- Book Review: The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems (1984) (1)
- Human Values Research Prior to the Parasite-Stress Theory (2014) (1)
- Xii. Cognitive Information Processing (2009) (1)
- 2. Modes of Reproduction (1983) (0)
- The Comparative Method in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species Research (2013) (0)
- 10. Protection of Females during Courtship and Copulation (1983) (0)
- Book Review:The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. Matt Ridley (1994) (0)
- 14. Female Mating Systems (1983) (0)
- 12. Selective Mate Choice by Females (1983) (0)
- 11. Sperm Competition and the Fertilization of Eggs (1983) (0)
- Evolutionary Aesthetics, Values, and Methodology (2014) (0)
- 4. Timing of Mate Locating (1983) (0)
- 5. Motivation to Copulate (1983) (0)
- The2nd:4thdigitratioandasymmetryofhand performanceinJamaicanchildren (2000) (0)
- Thornhill, Randy (2020) (0)
- 9. Intraspecific Variation in Male Mating Systems (1983) (0)
- 7. Selection and Defense of Mating Sites (1983) (0)
- Book Review:The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs John C. Avise (1999) (0)
- Economics, Values, and Cognitive Ability (2014) (0)
- 6. Competition in the Attraction of Females (1983) (0)
- Democracy and Other Governmental Systems (2014) (0)
- The Study of Adaptation (2021) (0)
- to men ' s sexual behaviour A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation (2001) (0)
- Short, R. V., and E. Balaban (eds). 1994. The Difference Between the Sexes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 479 pp. ISBN 0-521-44411-x, price (hardcover), $100.00. ISBN 0-521-44878-6, price (paperback), $29.95 (1996) (0)
- Box 2 . Reproductive ecology and the expression of fluctuating asymmetry (2003) (0)
- 13. Mechanisms of Female Choice (1983) (0)
- Reflections, Criticisms, and Future Research (2014) (0)
- Biodiversity and the Parasite-Driven Wedge (2014) (0)
- Wars, Revolutions and Coups, and the Absence of Peace Across the World (2014) (0)
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