BIO 358 3 Flashcards
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social coercion theory
- efficient in explaining fossil record
- efficient in explain our sexuality
unique
-anything unique about us is due to control of conflict of interest
monogamy
- adapted to
- we think its natural
- exclusive mating
- context-dependent alternatives
- adaptation
- sexual monogomay
sexual behavior
-based on where you grow up like language (
proximal killers
b-Ccoop < Ccoerc
remote killers
b-Ccoop > Ccoerc
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elite coercive males
- turn women into property
- didnt want people to talk about sex out loud bc they didnt want lesser males to figure out their con
- patriarchal
- as technology developed it became easier for control and males took it upon themselves to control -> states
moral outrage
- violent
- designed to allow us to engage in coercive enforcement of cooperation
- controls deployment of our individually adaptive coercive threat
- lack of justice
- details for what is right and wrong -> culturally programmed
guilt
-warns us away from coercive threat
higher purpose
- seek to contribute to greater good
- self-interested but not selfish
evolved proximate psychology we use when living in the uniquely human village
- moral outrage
- guilt
- higher purpose
promiscuity
-natural to humans
tools
-mind and behavior
natural selection produced animals who anticipate the past
- natural selection has no foresight
- we are built with the design that was successful for our ancestors
- moving back in time to optimal adaptation
- what parts are new and what parts are ancestral
hands
- human hands
- redesigned twice
- ape -> australapith -> humans
- inherited from ancestors and have newer tweaks
ovulation: chimps
- not distant from us but their sexual behavior is -> shows our sexual behavior has been redesigned
- infanticidal
- swelling during ovulation -> visible
ovulation: monkey: occult ovulation
- distant from us -> but similar sex behavior
- concealed ovulation
- evolved in arms race with infanticidal males
- suppresses infanticide
- secret sex with many males to become the next leader of the pack
- males are never sure they didnt father the child -> they must be nice to the females in case it is their child
- strategic
- promiscuous
gorillas
- large testicles
- sperm competition
- smallest testicles
- not promiscuous
human
- ancestors were engaged in at least some of the time promiscuous
- medium sized testicles
polygyny
- one male mating with multiple females
- uncommon for humans
- unelite males are unable to produce bc the elite males make harems
polyandry
-one female mates with more than one male
polygamy
- polygyny
- polyandry
polygynandry
- emerge in democratized social setting
- human adaptation
- context-dependent alternatives
- multiple males
- multiple females
- conflicts of interest arise but humans are good at controlling
- promiscuity
- mutual agreement
- mating units
what about falling in love and pair bonding
- pair bonding is universal
- not exclusively adapted to monogamy or polygynandry