ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Concealed Ovulation, Sexual Selection, Fembot
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What is unique about human sexual selection: different mating systems, male-to-male competition. Assignment: three circumstances that need to true for cross-cultural. He determined that there is a constant ratio of about 0. 7. Males get a different ratio - . 8-. 9. Males testosterone: android fat : stimulates fat deposits in abdominal region & inhibits fat deposition in thighs and buttocks highly mobilized for energy. Women: estrogen: gynoid fat inhibits fat deposition in abdomen & stimulates fat in thighs & buttocks energy reserve for pregnancy & lactation. Symmetry(gangstad, thornhill & yeo, 1994) bilaterally symmetrical right and left sides are mirror images. Measure fa fluctuating asymmetry diff between measurements in bilateral elements. Thornhill & gangestad (1994); grammar & thornhill, 1994), thornhill et al. ,(1995) opposite sex attractiveness - correlated negatively with fa. Attractiveness correlated positively with facial symmetry negative correlation between the self reports of female orgasms & measures of fa in their partners fluctuating a symmetry asymmetry showing someone of less genetic quality.
