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Lecture12prob.mating
Problems of mating???
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| women's long-term mate preferences | economic resources, social status, age, ambition/industriousness |
| mating | momentary act |
| short term mating | male's only parental role |
| long term mating | male around for parental investment |
| women's physical preferences | bigger, stronger men with food, shelter to promote survival and health |
| women's preference for resourses increases when rearing offspring | need for resources up and ability to get resources down |
| benefits of sexual reproduction | reduces competition between kin, combats parasites |
| sexual reproduction costs | physiological (eggs vs sperm) |
| female reproduction costs | internal gestation, lactation, rearing/protection |
| mate characteristics | physical, psycho-social, wealth |
| preferences should be associated with | traits with greater reproductive success |
| because mate selection difficult problem | many EPMs working in interactive and context sensitive fashion should be associated with selecting mate |
| reproduction central driver (currency) of evolution | similar across species, well studied |
| poor and rich have more | children |
| extreme pickiness | selected against |
| opportunities and preferences | don't often perfectly coincide |
| mating EPMs | interactive and sensitive to context |
| resources particularly important for pregnant female | ability down, needs up |
| LTM | foresee long term relationship: months to years |
| no male perfect on all dimensions | women have range of preferences |
| women's preferences | economic (shrikes cache size) |
| human male conditions | accrued, retained resources, willingness to share, reliable signals of male resources and potential |
| female preferences | economic resources across cultures (twice male rating) |
| European literature study theme | prince and lady |
| male preferences (mail order bride study) | responsible, hardworking, loving |
| income increased rating _ out of 10 for men, but no effect for women | 2 |
| preference for status (correlates with wealth) seen | across cultures |
| sugar daddies much more common than | sugar mammas |
| age preference correlates with social status and | peaks around 30 (ETA strength and skills) |
| male average for first marriage: women prefer males | 3 years older |
| female average for first marriage: men prefer females | 3 years younger |
| Tiwis (Australia) most mates for males | over 30 and increase with age |
| amazon groups: attractiveness correlates with | hunting ability |
| EPMs mediating preferences for traits that | predict resources also exist |
| females see "hard working" as | more important than men in mate |
| women's long term mating preferences | willingness to share resources, love, stability and dependability, willingness to invest in children |
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