BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Libido, Mate Choice, Mate Value
4 Nov 2014
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A hierarchy of human needs, defining seven "subselves" immediate physiological needs self-protection affiliation status/esteem: mate acquisition, mate retention. The evolution of sex drive and legacy drive. Stronger sexual impulses may explain why men cheat more than women new study: men succumb to sexual temptations more than women because they experience strong sexual impulses, not because they have weak self-control. Associations between dopamine d4 receptor gene variation with both infidelity and sexual promiscuity individual differences in sexual behaviour are likely partially mediated by individual variation in genes coding . 1 in 200 men direct descendants of genghis khan. 6th president of the mormon church had 6 wives and 48 children. And even women with low legacy drives were coerced by men to have children hence low legacy drive was not strongly selected against, as in men. Women may have lower sex drive for at least three reasons: prevent them from having more children than they can adequately care for.
