Estudio de selección de pareja en población del Distrito Federal

Abstract

This investigation contributes with data about the feminine Mexican population’s variability regarding the Index Waist Hip (IWH) and to the Index of Corporal Mass (ICM) and it discusses if relationship of these characteristics exists with the masculine preferences. The sample is enclosed to university population that is in “fullness” reproductive and it presents different socioeconomic levels according to the educational institution. Of the sampling of the variability of the ICC in feminine university population of the Federal District is a normal distribution of frequencies. The frequencies obtained in the preferences of the males suggest that a selective pressure can exist about the sample’s variability. The results are discussed according to the premises of the sexual selection and of the evolutionary psychology.