Sex differences in Parental Investment
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- Created on: 19-04-15 15:28
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- Discuss sex differences in Parental Investment
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- S - Symons - Men only have to donate a teaspoon of semen while women have to be pregnant and give birth
- M - Miller - When males do invest they are under extreme pressure to avoid being cuckolded
- B - Buss - Sexual jealousy evolved to avoid cuckoldry
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- B - Baker - UK magazine study, concluded that 14% of population come from extra marital affairs
- Cannot extrapolate this data to general populous as only attracts a certain demographic of reader
- A - Anderson et al - Men who lived with mother of children was more likely to invest in college fund
- B - Buss - Physiological responses, men become more stressed when imagining the act while women become more stressed when imagining the emotional shift
- G - Gross and Shine - In species with internal fertilization, 86% of care was done by mother, in external it was 70% males
- B - Baker - UK magazine study, concluded that 14% of population come from extra marital affairs
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