BIOL 350 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spiritualism, Speciesism, Cics
4 Dec 2015
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Describe three examples of fitness signals and/or mating tactics that humans commonly display, that we considered in biol350. Fitness signals and mating tactics that occupy the human mind without us even needing to think about it. Fitness signals are hard wired perceptions that signal good genes that can be passes on to o children, but they are perceptions that occur intrinsically without conscious intent involved in their associated behavior. Hisotorically the signals have virtually always associated accurately with genuinely high relative fitness potential, which is why attraction to them doesn"t need to be accompanied by any awareness of why one is attracted to the. They were attractive to ancestors and this promoted offspring production ie. facial symmetry signals good heath, beauty, waste-to-hip ratio for sexiness and singal fertility potential in female. Perceptions of beauty reflect qualities such as facial symmetry as markers of good health, and sexiness reflection waste-to-hip ratios that signal fertility potential in females.
