PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Red Queen Hypothesis, Social Cognition, Phenotype
3 Nov 2015
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Males and females - week 5, chapter 4. Kinds of mates we prefer and choices we make have a great impact on the chances of our. Some behaviours we exhibit are psychological in nature (want, think, desire, believe) are the reproductive success target of evolutionary psychology of homo sapiens. Paradox of sex - sex is expensive from an evolutionary perspective, but it is so common (especially for multicellular organisms) Evolution doesn"t evolve complex traits like sexual reproduction unless it has an important bene t. Males and females have different sizes, the dimorphism is not that pronounced however for. Relationship between size and reproductive strategies humans (compared to other species) - this tells us something about mating relations. How does reproduction work: the paradox of sex. Typically unicellular organisms that are reproducing that way. Cloning (because it is an exact duplicate from the rst) Asexual: divide into two daughter cells: clones. May be variation that does not express itself phenotypically.
