Evolutionary explanation Flashcards
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Anisogamy
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differences between male and female sex cells
2
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Researcher
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Buss
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Buss research
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conducted a survey of over 10,000 adults in 33 countries and found that females reported valuing resource-based characteristics when choosing a male and males valued signs of female reproduction such as attractiveness and modernity
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Methodological issue
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his use of questionnaires could lead to social desirability bias with participants answering in socially desirable ways rather than honestly.
Also, 77% of participants were from Western industrial nations which means Buss might have been measuring the effects of culture rather than an evolutionary determined behaviour .