Relationship Between Sexual Selection Amd Human Reproductive Behaviour

Question 1

Ao1

Intersexual
Intrasexual
Body shape/features
Biology

Answer 1

Mates chosen to ensure high quality genes passed on

Intra sexual - members of one sex (norm male) compete for access to mates - victors procreate, losers do not - passing on the traits that made them victorious

Intersexual - preference for a trait eg tallness in males, overtime males will become taller - preprogrammed to respond to these indicators, increasing willingness to mate with them

Body shape/features - cross cultural preference for waist/hip ratio to be 0.7
- beards preferred in males as demonstrates high fertility

Biology - programmed diff - females less gametes, limited reproductive life, males can be indiscriminate in their mate choice

Question 2

AO2

Homosexuality
Buss - cultural relativity
Clark & Hatfield
Deterministic

Answer 2

Homo - if attraction is only to pass on genes?

Buss - cultural rel - 10,000 people from 37 cultures - women want finical security, men want hourglass and young

C&H - strangers approached on college campus - members of opp sex asked if they wanted to have sex - no women said yes, 75% of males did

Determinist - ignores free will - sexist