>Alpha fucks, beta bucks

http://pillse.bol.ucla.edu/Publications/Pillsworth&Haselton_ARSR.pdf

• There is abundant evidence that women, as well as men, desire long-term committed relationships; but there is also an emerging literature revealing a hidden side of women's desires suggesting that women have also evolved to pursue short-term or illicit affairs.

http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~cashdan/publications/ec_evolanth.pdf

• Women value the ability to provide economically in a long-term mate. Females in a wide variety of species (insects, birds, mammals) prefer males with resources, and the same is true for humans. Buss’s cross-cultural questionnaire study of 37 societies showed that women in all of them placed a higher value on the financial prospects of a prospective mate than men did. Closer questioning of an American sample showed that women prefer immediate access to resources when seeking short-term matings but place greater value on cues to future resource acquisition when evaluating long-term mates. If women act on these stated preferences we would expect wealthy men to have more mates
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2769593/HALF-women-fall-partner-standby-fancied-case-current-relationship-turns-sour.html

• Half of women have “back-ups”, men they keep close just in case they fail to establish a romantic relationship.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/Tifferet_Kruger_DC_LEBS.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559901/

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/unify_uploads/files/gildersleeve%20et%20al.%20sex%20roles%202013.pdf

http://www.academia.edu/6514194/Mens_masculinity_and_attractiveness_predict_their_female_partners_reported_orgasm_frequency_and_timing

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/504114b1e4b0b97fe5a520af/t/55f09bafe4b0f0a5b7e04f6b/1441831855396/HuntEastwickFinkel2015PSci.pdf

• The less attractive a man is the longer his female partner will make him wait for sex.