ANT 3541 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Melvin Konner, Kalahari Desert, Facial Symmetry

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Sources of marital conflict in 5 cultures - evolutionary psychology journal. Cultural and social pressure played a role. Evolutionary psychologists agree that marriage is the best model to encourage kinship and reproduction. Cross cultural research has shown that men desire kindness, dependability, and understanding. Sex, resources, divisions of labor, children, and kindness (kindness in arguments is crucial for a healthy marriage) were all reasons for conflict in marriage. 99% of the time humans have been on this earth we have been living in a hunter gatherer society. Every society in the world practices exogamy - or marrying out. Nisa - the autobiography of a !kung san by marjorie shostak. How interacting with attractive people of the opposite sex and how they can affect memory and cognitive function. Sexual selection - people seek qualities in mates that signal reproductive beneficial traits for them. Examples of these are masculinity, facial symmetry, intellectualism.

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