ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nepotism, Cuckold, Parental Investment
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There must be differences between available males: males must be in short supply, males limit their mating effort for parental effort. Females: greater parental investment, maximum reproductive potential < males, greater selectivity in mates. Increased parental investment: greater concern over female fidelity and prevention of cuckoldry. Male-male competition leads to: men monopolizing ptclr women assuring their paternity of those women"s children, while remaining alert to extramural low-cost sexual opportunity. Do homosexual males exemplify the ultimate male sociosexual proclivity: more sexual partners, more casual sex encounters. Is it a nepotistic strategy: recourse for infertile & postreproductive couple. Demographic trends in western industrialized societies: reproductive variance is shrinking, fertility is declining, but pronatalism has endured. Age of sexual maturity is declining: critescu (1975, in the past there was a correlation between menarchical age & mortality. People are supposed to reproduce and they are supposed to want to reproduce. Brideprice after the birth of the first child.
