Another interesting line of research is that which examines women's mate preferences across the ovulatory cycle.

The conventional wisdom has been that mate preferences are learned in the womb or infancy and do not change.

It is thought that male and female differences in learning ability have contributed to sexual selection and mate preference throughout evolution.

Different populations can also reinforce their isolation through differing mate preferences, or sexual selection.

The result showed that age and education level are crucial in affecting the mate preference.

Instead of asking people about their mate preferences, scientists can now watch mating rituals in real time.

There is evidence of early speciation through mate preference in guppies.

His experiment provides insight into how mate preference of any sort is formed, homosexual as well as heterosexual.

The males from the species Latrodectus hesperus show high mate preference for better conditioned females.