SOCB22H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: False Dilemma, Institute Of Environmental Sciences And Technology, David Buss
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Davis buss argues that reproductive biology is the key to understanding how men and women differ. Women undergo pregnancy, childbirth and lactation, and men do not, over the course of thousands of generations men and women have developed different ways of being in the world. Buss is a proponent of ecolutionary psychology and sociobiology-bodies of thought that stress that the causes of human behavior can be found in our biological adaptations to survival challenges in early human history. Evolutionary psychology predicts that males and females will be the same or similar in all those domains in which the sexes have faced the same or similar adaptive problems. Both sexes have sweat glands because both sexes have faced the adaptive problem of thermal regulation. Both sexes have similar taste preferences for fat, sugar, salt, and particular amino acides because both sexes have faced similar food consumption problems.
