Sexual selection and human reproductive behavior
- Created by: Masa milenkovic
- Created on: 22-12-12 12:46
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- Biological approach suggests that women and man look for a match to promote and protect genes
- Women look for a men with good resources so they can secure
- Men tend to look for young women which means they are fertile so they can have babies
- In order to find a good match people have honest signals and 'unhonest' which are plastic operations , make-up
- Basic explanation is that any trait which increases reproduction will start to be used over evolutionary time
- Sexual selection and human reproductive behavior
- Pagel suggests that man with more hair are found unattractive as they can have more germs than the one without which means that the offspring will not have good genes
- Research into sexual selection was by Buss who had 10.000 participants both females and males who had a questioner and it was done on 34 cultures
- Findings that there are individual diffrences of what man and women look for but the most common was that women look for younger women while women look for good recources
- Good sample size
- Questioner - may lie-self report
- 34 cultures-good
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