Sociology 2241E Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Casual Sex, David Buss
9 Jan 2017
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Argues that men and women have faced different physical problems in terms of adaptation: Women have faced childbirth, and thus their bodies have adapted to prime them for the birthing process. Buss argues that men ace psychological information processing problems: Men face uncertain paternity of the offspring. If they fail to solve this problem, they may end up investing time in offspring whom are not their own. Argues that women cannot provide for themselves during pregnancy, and therefore must acquire a mate who can feed them and in turn nourish the baby she is carrying. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ho failed to a(cid:272)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e a (cid:373)ate (cid:449)ould die, (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t fe(cid:374)d fo(cid:396) the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es. Sexual selection defines the primary domains in which the sexes have faced difference adaptive. Darwin"s second theory of evolution: the theory of sexual selection. Hypothesis about psychological sex differences follow from sexual asymmetries in mte selection and.
