PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mate Choice, Rolex
15 Mar 2016
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Lecture 3 - evolution and women"s long term mate preferences. The choices our ancestors made enabled the survival of their genes: we have hardwired instructions telling us who to nd attractive. By having children, you are hoping that you will produce offspring that will survive to reproduce themselves, and so on. Preferences that we have will survive if they optimize reproductive success - and vice versa. Males: all the male has to do to create a vessel for his genes is donate sperm (do it and run) Female: only release an egg once per month, expensive and big commitment: giving up nutrition, giving birth (painful), lactate. Initial investment is up to 4 years, then typically continues (big. Investment: without support they might get rid of the baby bc you don"t want to continue the huge investment. Men can be quite opportunistic -- females be choosey.
