Evolutionary Perspective

1. Natural experiment. Male-female stress responses. Measured cortisol levels 1 week before and immediatley befire exams. Found males increased, but females decreased. Shows that they have different ways of dealing with stress (5, 2, 2)
5. men look for partners who are physically attractive. Women look for resources avaible to provide. Men mate as frequently as possible and select women who are more fertile and heathy. Women enhance physical attractiveness. Men advertise status (cars) (4, 6)
8. E-S theory- women better at emphathising, men better at systemising. Gender difference due to selection pressures. Men able to systemise with better precission gained evolutionary advantage. Tend+Befriend- women focused on interpersonal relationships (9, 5)
9. Gender adaptions explain why humans survived and nethanderals didn't. Nethanderal men and women both hunted. Required high calorie intake so when hunting was unsuccessful, group starved (4, 3, 7)
10. Used personal ads to assess what men/women were seeking and what they were advertising. Found 44% of males sought physically attractive partner, but on 22% of women did. 50% women offered attractiveness, only 34% of men did (9, 3, 6)

2. Questionaire. Found males tended to be systemisers and females empathisers. 17% men had empathisisng brain. 17% women had systmatic brain. (5, 5)
3. Deterministic, raises socially sensitive issues, speculative (4)
4. Tend and befriend stemed from different challenges by men and women. Different ways of dealing with stress, Adaptive response for women to protect themselves+young. Apadptive to group together in family units (6, 2, 2)
6. men=hunters, women=domestic gatherers. Role of division evolved as women spent most of adult life pregnant or breast feeding. \if women spent time hunting, would decrease groups reproductive success. Division of roles avoids starvation. (8, 2, 6)
7. Climate change in Europe around 30,000 BC cause of Nethanderals disappearing (8, 2, 2)

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