ANT331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gestation, Yolngu, Menopause
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Growth: tends to end around adolescence. Mating effort: seeking out copulatory opportunities, evidence from the gametes (millions of sperms is about mobility and copulation ovum is for the maintenance and growth). Proceptivity: seeking mates, attract mates genetic quality is what counts. You do not want to waste parental efforts on a less fit male. Through assessing phsycial characteristics, testosterone levels, seeing males out compete other males. Attractivity: sexual stimulus to potential mate, you want to be a female who will appear to raise offspring that will reach sexual maturity. Primate life history strategy: fetal life, gestation, parental and offspring conflict large energy drain on mother. Infancy: time during which a young mammal nurses from its mother, maternal dependency, mothers will exclusively breast feed their infants. And there is total dependency of the infancy on the mother. Males tend to be more aggressive in their play types, as well as being physical.