FURTHER READING AND REFERENCES

 

Here are our suggested reading and relevant references for chapters 1 through 20. The introduction, the five principles, and final chapter on creating your mating plan don’t need their own references since they anticipate or review material in other chapters. We focus on popular books that are cheap to buy and easy to read but still grounded in good evidence and sound advice, and on the most readable and fascinating of the academic books.

In case you want to dig deeper into the scientific ideas and evidence, the ebook and the Mating Grounds website also include over a thousand papers in academic journals and essays in edited books. You can use Google Scholar to find most of these papers. This is very far from an exhaustive list of the relevant scientific papers—we picked recent ones, with clearly descriptive (or amusing) titles, in strong journals, by reputable researchers, with useful bibliographies. Sometimes we favored one over other similar papers just because it had a hilarious title. To avoid redundancy, we cite references only once, in the first relevant chapter, many are also relevant to later chapters.