ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erogenous Zone, Foreplay, Sexual Intercourse
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2 films, guardians of the flute (todays film) Life history strategy - resources to reach puberty and reproduce. Theoretically limited resources offspring require lots of resources. Low percentage of brain development at birth (unique period called. Early hominid social organization: derived from studies on chimpanzees, patrilineal troop structure, male kinship groups. Chimp models used for pre human reproduction research. Male kinship groups where females would move between groups. Seen in human efforts, males stay in their groups, females move from marriage to marriage between men. Long term pair bonding: males and females maintain monogamous exclusive reproductive relationship over a period of time. Serial monogamy: being exclusive with sexual partner, and having multiple partners over reproductive life. Promiscious mating system: no fidelity, copulation can happen between partners all the time (seen in chimps) Exclusive sexual fidelity: long term pair bonding, or serial monogamy. Human social organization: male kin groups, exchange of women. Males: disproportionately large penis, rapid exhaustion of sperm.
