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Refers to the categories of
being Male and Female –
needed for the act of mating
to result in biological
reproduction
Sex
Biologically determined
differences between men
and women
Sex
Categories of Sex
Constant
Biologically determined
is about your
sexual feelings, thoughts,
attractions
and
behaviours
towards
other people. You can
find
other
people
physically, sexually or
emotionally
attractive,
and all those things are a
part of your
Sexuality
the feelings you have about your
body and your confidence level in
how you relate intimately to
someone else. It’s what you bring
of yourself, both emotionally and
physically,
to
sex
and
relationships
sexual self esteem
dealt with the evolution of the
characteristics due to mating, rather than
survival, advantage (Darwin, 1859; 1871)
Those who survive the struggle are by definition
not only the fittest but also morally the best. So
it’s defining ‘good’ as ‘survival. ‘ Whatever
survives is by definition good.”
Natural selection
subsumes the processes of intrasexual competition and
intersexual selection. The mate preferences of one sex determine the domains in
which the opposite sex will compete. The ways in which one sex competes can
influence the evolution of mate preferences.
sexual selection
The sex that invests more than the
other in offspring would be more
choosy about mates. In species with
internal
female
fertilization,
the
greater
parental
investment
by
females makes them a valuable
reproductive resource.
Paternal Investment
suggesting that
one male would indulge in reproductive
activities with more than one female
polygynous relationship
The males would impregnate
the female and then to ensure lineage, the
female was protected by the male.
monogamous relationship
having or involving many sexual partners,
regardless of class
promiscuous relationship
Women can have multiple sexual partners
and the children belong to the mothers.
The biological fathers live with their
mothers and are brought up by their
maternal families.
Matriarchal
refers to the characteristics of
women, men, girls and boys that
are socially constructed. This
includes norms, behaviours and
roles associated with being a
woman, man, girl or boy, as well
as relationships with each other.
gender