Social scientists disagree on the role of evolution in accounting for the comple

Sociobiologists say that evolution has shaped the different courting and mating strategies of males and females because males and females face different kinds of survival problems.
The different strategies used by males and females maximize their chances of passing on their genes.
Evolutionary psychologists generally agree, but consider analogies to nonhuman species to be simplistic and misleading and so rely less on comparisons with other species.
Critics argue that current evolutionary explanations of infidelity and monogamy are based on simplistic stereotypes of gender differences and that actual behavior of humans and other animals often fails to conform to the predictions of evolutionary psychologists.