PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 8 Women, Mate Choice, Operational Sex Ratio
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Chapter 4 women"s long-term mating strategies pg 102-118. Asexual versus sexual reproduction; benefits of sex; red queen; humans: women"s preferences. Asexual versus sexual reproduction: are males useful: not all animals have sex (i. e. , mixing up genes with someone else). In many species, individuals (females) simply clone themselves. In many species, males provide nothing but genetic material. 2. make parasites adapt to more variable environment (i. e. red queen theory: more niches: bold-cautious dimension in fish. Wilson and colleagues (1993) categorized fish as bold or cautious based on their likelihood of approaching and getting caught in wire-traps. When they brought the fish into lab tanks, they found that the bold fish were indeed different from the cautious fish. The bold fish adapted more readily to the tank in terms of beginning to feed there, more often swam on their own as. Ep 2/8 2 opposed to staying with other fish, and were more likely to approach a human observer.
