PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inclusive Fitness, Infant Mortality, Egg Cell

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Dating seems to be like a marketplace, where there is a general pattern of a social exchange: newspaper want ads, dating websites. Both men and women seek and offer certain characteristics for each other: what is seen that what one sex seeks is what the other offers, this is known as the sex for success social exchangeh. Women offer sex, and men offer success. These patterns still hold today but are getting weaker: in every culture, this pattern is very similar. Inclusive fitness shows that this pattern in social exchange can be explained using darwinian evolutionary theory: all theoretical. Inclusive fitness states that our strongest motive is to pass on our genetics message (reproduction). In order to meet this goal, we have to do 3 things: survive to sexual maturity, procreate (have children, get offspring to sexual maturity. Your genetic message passed on, and for him/her to do the same. You will see these ambitions in our dating relationships.