Modern Day Sexual Selection

General selection:

Big Five personality traits

• Agreebleness is selected through assortative mating between men and women in public & health sectors.
• Agreebleness in women is selected through popular occupations such as teaching & nursing.
• Neuroticism in women is selected through occupations such as nursing.
• Male extraversion, aggression, conscientiousness and fearlessness is selected through marriage between male police officers and other women.
• Male social dominance, competitiveness & Dark Triad traits is selected through fields such as business, politics and law.
• Female social dominance & competitive traits is selected through fields such as business, politics and law.
• Openness is selected through both sexes in the arts, media & film through assortative marriage.
• Neuroticism in men is not selected for and is under negative selection.

Specific Selection:

• Greater selection for less masculine males with relatively greater parental ability.
• Greater selection for multi-tasking females who can balance both career and motherhood.
• Greater selection for females with greater income & cognitive ability.
• Increased selection for females with higher systemizing ability and co-occuring agreebleness.

Overall future trend –

• Greater selection for male & females with systemizing traits and co-occurant greater agreebleness within urbanized large cities.
• Narrowing selection for socially dominant & competitive individuals only with high income.
• Hedonistic and materialistic traits (especially from conservative populations) are in negative selection due to lifetime bachelorhood.