PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture 4: Evolutionary Explanations of Human Mate Choice and Sexuality
7 Feb 2017
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Evolutionary explanations of human mate choice and sexuality. Everything is about survival: whatever humans are doing right now they are doing because it benefits their a(cid:374)(cid:272)esto(cid:396)s it"s (cid:449)hat got (cid:455)ou(cid:396) ge(cid:374)es passed alo(cid:374)g su(cid:272)(cid:272)essfull(cid:455) Feminists believed that there are societal pressures that women must abide by. Evolutionists believe is all based on biology. Our preferences survive if reproductive success is optimized or enahanced: evolution: if your genes did not pass on, your life has been wasted, genes are the key; pass on genes to future generations. Indirect means: through family members: creating optimal survival vessels for genes (offspring with successful reproduction) Parental investment theory (trivers, 1972: about how males and females differ reproductively and mating wise in order to optimize their reproductive success, gametes: egg. Ba(cid:271)ies a(cid:396)e p(cid:396)e(cid:272)ious i(cid:374) the se(cid:374)se that (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake a lot of the(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:396)a(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d expensive) and you should probably try to make the best one every single time.
