Choosing Mstes Flashcards
What does an animal want from a mate? (Sexual selection)
This convey as some like bears, just want to meet and others like penguins partners for life
How does sexual selection work?
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.
What is reverse sexual dimorphism?
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
What determines sexual selection in humans?
Parental investment theory suggest that it’s more costly for women to have the offspring. Thank you 
What is evidence to show women’s choosiness in sexual selection?
Buss anr Schmit 1993 for them to get to know someone before sleep with them  women longer than men
What limits female reproductiveness?
- Access to resources for their offspring.
- Limited capacity as we have a decreased as we get older
What can women do to help bounce out the reproductive investment?
 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 
What are good queues for resource potential
- Social status.
- The amount of ambition
- Jeans
What are good genes?
 this refers to optimising who have good versions of the traits for reproducing and allowing the success of the future offspring
What is an example / study of good genes
 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
What is human minimum male investment?
 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 
Why is offspring investment a good thing for men?
 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
What is the best age for women to have children?
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
What age do genders prefer? To date?
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
What physical attribute do men tend to prefer in women?
Waist to hip ratio?