01:185:253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Robert Trivers, Limiting Factor, Gestation

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: 01:185:253
• Professor: Stephen Stich

Document Summary

Since we have many modules with competing goals, no emotion or desire compels us to behave in a specific way: what are the psychological, behavioral and social differences between men and. Sex differences & the explanation proposed by evolutionary psychology. Because of these sex differences, the obligatory investment of the female in the reproductive process is much greater than the obligatory investment of the male in the reproductive process. Females are the limiting resource in reproduction: the number of offspring that a herd of zebra or a group of humans can produce in a year is limited by the number of females available. But not by the number of males available, since. Human males can, in principle,produce hundreds or thousands of offspring. Human females can, at most, produce a few dozen selection will (probably*) spread that gene thru the population. C. if a gene appears that leads a male to want many sexual partners, natural.