PSYC 3420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Dilute Budgerigar Mutation, Longitudinal Study, Plastic Surgery

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3420
• Professor: Irwin Silverman

Document Summary

Theortetical background for the evolution of men"s mate. How did selection fashion specific mate preferences in men. Why men might benefit from commitment & marriage. Increased odds of succeeding in attracting a mate. Because it is clear that many ancestral women required reliable signs of male commitment before consenting to sex, men who failed to commit might have failed to attract any women at all. Increased ability to attract a more desirable mate. Parental investment beneficial marriages for their sons and daughters they have married and additional mates, ad gains access to coalitional allies through his wife"s family, which provide additional reproductively relevant benefits. Increased social status in many cultures, males are not considered to have achieved true manhood until. Added coalitional allies increased status has a lot of benefits including better resources for his children. Men cannot observe a women"s reproductive value directly, so selection could. When the female chimpanzee is capable of conceiving, she goes into a phase.