ANTH205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sex Selection, Mate Choice, Arthur Schopenhauer
22 May 2018
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Department
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SURVIVAL LOVE
MONDAY, APRIL 30
iClicker questions
1. According to thinkers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud, what aspects of man’s
psyche is most powerful?
a. Instinctual appetites
b. Seeking the well-being of others
c. Logic/rationality
d. The drive to do what is morally correct
2. What is what H.P. Lovecraft calls “cosmic fear” in terms of horror?
a. Direct fear of a perceived danger, ex: a man aiming a gun at you
b. Deep and instinctual fear of the unknown
c. Fear of something that is seen as “impure”
d. Religious consequences to...
Nature and Nurture
● Why do humans need emotions for survival?
○ Biology: anger and frustration
○ Biology: fear and anxiety
○ Biology: love, empathy and caring
● How do cultures perform and limi the expression of emotions?
○ Culture: ritual, law, social controls (gossip, ostracism…)
○ Culture: myth, training
○ Culture: conformity, family systems
● Why and when do emotions lead to aggression and violence?
● Anger
○ Controlled violence: militarism and ritual
○ Uncontrolled violence: murder and abuse
○ Social construct: military and the state
● Fear
○ Personal: phobias
○ State: anxiety
○ Social construct: media, specifically movies and TV
● Love
○ Personal: mate selection, lovers and spouses, reproduction vs. mating
○ Societal: family
○ Social construct: music
Mate Choice vs. Love
● In many ways, love and mate choice are interconnected, but love and best mate choices
can be mutually exclusive
● Sex selection has played a role in human evolutionary pattern
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Document Summary
Culture: ritual, law, social controls (gossip, ostracism ) Social construct: media, specifically movies and tv. Personal: mate selection, lovers and spouses, reproduction vs. mating. In many ways, love and mate choice are interconnected, but love and best mate choices can be mutually exclusive. Sex selection has played a role in human evolutionary pattern. Sex selection is the process by which we choose with whom to reproduce, and thus, with whom we recombine our genes for the next generation. This is a form of natural selection in which the choice involved health and environmental survivability. Mate choice includes sex selection, but also includes perceptions of survivability that may or may not be accurate, and culturally specific preferences. If you"ve never experienced love, it"s hard to love your children. Genie lived 10 years of her life chained to a potty chair. After intensive therapy, she finally told researchers that she even slept there. But her parents never bothered to potty train her.
