CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ismail Ibn Sharif, Sexual Reproduction, Gender Identity
10 Apr 2016
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Sex: a person"s biological identity, genes, chromosomes, physical identity and hormones. Gender: a person"s social and cultural identity, the two are typically strongly correlated. Evolution and sex: the two sexes may not necessarily have the same reproductive interests, this can lead to divergent evolutionary adaptations, as each sex seeks to maximize its own reproductive fitness. Women"s success: the world record for having the most number of children officially recorded is 69 by the first of two wives of feodor vassilyev (1707-1782), a peasant from shuya, 150 miles east of moscow. In 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets! Men"s success: the most prolific father of all time is believed to be the last sharifian emperor of. Men and women have different average levels of basic personality traits: honest-humility ( +, emotionality ( ++, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness ( +, openness to experience ( -)
