Psychology 2075 Chapter 2: Chapter 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

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In contrast, lack of lubrication in these situations could lead to vaginal injury or infection: thus, natural selection would have favoured women with an automatic or reflective physiological response to a range of sexual stimuli. In addition to natural selection, darwin also propose a mechanism that is less well-known sexual selection: sexual selection - selection that results from differences and treats affecting access to mates. It consists of two processes: competition among members of one gender for meeting access to members of the other gender, preferential choice by members of one gender for certain members of the other gender. In other words, in many species, males compete among themselves for the right to mate with females, females prefer certain males and mate with them while refusing to mate with other males. Evaluation of sociobiology: many criticisms of sociobiology have been made. Some critics object to the biological determinism that it implies.