This is a link-bait title, and a surprisingly poor guide to the professional literature on the subject of evolutionary influences on human mating behavior. Firs

This is a link-bait title, and a surprisingly poor guide to the professional literature on the subject of evolutionary influences on human mating behavior. First of all, "Darwinians" is the wrong category to use to name the scientists who think about evolutionary influences on human behavior. All competent psychologists, biologists (whether zoologists or botanists or specialists of some other kind), medical doctors, and other scholars of human behavior are "Darwinians" in the sense of knowing that species Homo sapiens originated by a process of macroevolution from earlier living things. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/ http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/ As Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/2/l_102_01.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/2/l_102_01.html and the "modern synthesis" http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/history/modsynth.shtml http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/history/modsynth.shtml combining Darwinian evolution from common descent including a mechanism of natural selection and Mendelian inheritance of discrete units of heredity is the standard point of view among all people who have a current scientific understanding of biology. It is rather what is properly called "evolutionary psychology" (which at its core http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/busslab/pdffiles/evolutionary_psychology_AP_2010.pdf http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/busslab/pdffil... is much more recent than Darwin's thought) that is actually controversial at the moment, with some very Darwinian biologists not liking evolutionary psychology well at all http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/12/10/ep-the-fundamental-failure-of-the-evolutionary-psychology-premise/ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/12/10/ep-the-fundame... while other biologists who are friends of those biologists like evolutionary psychology as an attempt to explain human behavior. http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/is-evolutionary-psychology-worthless/ http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/is-evolut... Charles Darwin made few assertions about "dating" in the current sense and hardly any settled assertions about human behavior, even in his book-length treatments of the subject, but raised a lot of questions. Some of the answers are still tentative and debated, and the overall approach of what fans call "evolutionary psychology" is controversial, but that evolution happened and had something to do with the current human condition is not controversial at all among scientists.