Gender- Evolutionary Explanations

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Gender Behaviours have developed to...
Aid survival and give an evolutionary advantage
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Intersexual Competition is...
Preference of certain characteristics of the opposite sex
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Intrasexual Competition is...
Members of one sex compete for access to members of the other
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Producing lots of sperm is a...
Male mating strategy
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Looking for signs of fertility is a...
Male mating strategy
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The way they have evolved to be bigger and stronger is a...
Male mating strategy
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Which gender uses Courtship?
Female
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Which gender invests more into a child?
Female
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Cross cultural study comparing gender behaviours in non industrialised societies found that men typically hunted and women looked after children
Wood and Eagly
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Xavante Hunter gatherers found pattern of reproduction and offspring tends ti reflect that of most of the people suggesting an evolutionary basis
Kenrick et al
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Study on social groups in Papua New Guinea providing evidence of cultural role differences and found different tribes had different gender characteristics depending on location suggesting gender is culturally determined
Mead
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Wood and Eagly is ______ for the Evolutionary Approach to Gender
Support
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Kenrick et al. is ______ for the Evolutionary Approach to Gender
Support
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Mead is ______ for the Evolutionary Approach to Gender
Challenge
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Intersexual Competition is...

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Preference of certain characteristics of the opposite sex

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Intrasexual Competition is...

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Producing lots of sperm is a...

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Looking for signs of fertility is a...

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