Choosing Mstes Flashcards

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What does an animal want from a mate? (Sexual selection)

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This convey as some like bears, just want to meet and others like penguins partners for life

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How does sexual selection work?

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The organism stand out and meet the requirement of the mate.

Causes competition in two ways

 intrasexual selection is competition within a species, such as male versus male

L inter sexual selection is the ability to choose partners from a Pool of options, such as choosing a guy from tinder as the mentalist picky.

These 2 cups can overlap

For having a flashy exterior like a peacock and it’s beautiful tail. It has access to food and resources and is more likely to be chosen as a mate.

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What is reverse sexual dimorphism?

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This is where female of species is larger than the male, such as birds of prey, and this could be a product of intersexual selection

It is easier to hunt is smaller and easier to protect eggs if the female is bigger

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What determines sexual selection in humans?

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Parental investment theory suggest that it’s more costly for women to have the offspring. Thank you 

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What is evidence to show women’s choosiness in sexual selection?

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Buss anr Schmit 1993 for them to get to know someone before sleep with them  women longer than men

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What limits female reproductiveness?

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  1. Access to resources for their offspring.
  2. Limited capacity as we have a decreased as we get older
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What can women do to help bounce out the reproductive investment?

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 choose Mann will have the resources

Princes and 1993 survey rated financial prospects as important twice as often as mended for women replicated two years later

This was also seen across cultures 

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What are good queues for resource potential

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  1. Social status.
  2. The amount of ambition
  3. Jeans
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What are good genes?

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 this refers to optimising who have good versions of the traits for reproducing and allowing the success of the future offspring

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What is an example / study of good genes

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 in a study of T-shirts, male participants wore T-shirts for 48 hours and female participants, then smelt the T-shirts

Women preferred the ones from men with differing HC scores which show that they were different from the females

More variation is attractive and increase like happiness of success

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What is human minimum male investment?

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 it cost less for men to have children because they have a lot of sperm and therefore they are less choosy

But Mel reproduction can be limited if they don’t have enough access to female mates because women are choosier 

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Why is offspring investment a good thing for men?

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 Because offspring are dependent upon adults, so men who are investing their offspring and men are protectors

Also, monogamous relationships are good because men can still have as many children as they like and there’s less unity about if the child is there

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What is the best age for women to have children?

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Early 20s, it’s the peak in Western societies

 having chosen, cheering teenagers, maybe not as efficient, because it’s Support and their brains and bodies are not physically as able to handle children

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What age do genders prefer? To date?

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Research has shown that men women whereas women tend to prefer eating mentality to their age (OK Cupid stats)

However, this may be explained by there, being more competition, format, intersexual, and intersexual

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What physical attribute do men tend to prefer in women?

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Waist to hip ratio?

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What is evidence for male preference for waster hip ratio?

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When comparing Miss America, finalist and playboy models, the overweight decrease, the waist to hip ratio was stay and was

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Why is voice to hip for year seen as good?

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 it, women can have childbearing hips.  this ratio decreases overtime, as well as the ability to have children 

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What are examples of short term meeting strategies?

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One night stands short relationships 

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Why are short term relationships potentially good thing

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  1. Bonding between the sexes.
  2. Quick likelihood of passing down good jeans. 
20
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How does extra marital affair relate to my choice?

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 we aren’t completely monogamous, for example, the study of asking people to choose, choose a person they find attractive and then swapping that person with someone else and asking the participant why they found that person attractive, even though they didn’t choose them. But the participants continued to say why they found the attractive.

 Ashley, Madison is also an example of cheating being common

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 how can test size impact on competition

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Men can have larger testes as a means to get a mate

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What is circumstantial support for mates switching hypothesis??

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Women, who cheat tend to because their emotions are being neglected, and then, because they’re not actually satisfied and seek more opportunity 

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Describes the ovulation cycle and good genes

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 it’s suggested that traits linked to good jeans should be more desirable when a female is fertile