PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ovulation, Mateship, Ronald Fisher
10 Apr 2014
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They don"t have to commit to someone so why should they commit. They should to optimize their reproductive success. To have high quality offspring you have to have two committed parents. Women don"t want to give sexual access to men who aren"t going to commit, If you want the highest quality mate to have the highest quality of genes for your. Then you will have access to survival of offspring--they have two investing parents especially high quality mate women offspring then you have to commit (may be a test question) If you aren"t a high quality mate then you are getting the highest quality in having a long term mate since you don"t do well in short term mating. You can be somewhat more sure that you are actually producing babies and are the father of those babies--increased paternity certainty. Men have adaptive puzzles that they have to solve as well.
