PSYC 3100 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
10 Dec 2018
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Intrasexual competition involves competition between members of the same sex to gain preferential access to mating partners such as strength, size, agility, confidence. Intersexual competition mate choice: preferential mate choice involves the desire for mating with partners that posses" certain characteristics. Identifying women who are sexually accessible: minimizing costs, risks, and commitment, paternity confidence, accessing a women"s reproductive value, commitment. Identifying women with good parenting skills: attaining women with high-quality genes. Immediate resource extraction: evaluating short-term mates as possible long- term mates, attaining men with high- quality genes, cultivating potential backup mates. Identifying men who are able and willing to invest: physical protection from aggressive men. Identifying men with good parenting skills: attaining men with high- quality genes. In some species, this is reversed- males: this is called sex role reversed species. In human females begin puberty earlier than males do: sex differences in mortality and longevity, external causes take bigger risks (physical and social) to attract mates.
