ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Androstenone, Paternal Care, Mate Choice
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21 october 2020 - human male sexual selection. Learning objectives: understand how male intersexual selection affects female mate choice. Male genetic markers: understand short term and long term strategies for female mate choice, understand female strategies for mate selection. Coyness: understand the mechanisms for male intersexual selection. Testicle morphology: discuss evidence to support and refute human sperm competition. How sure a male is that an infant is his genetic offspring. Females will choose for genetic & fertility benefits. Females will withhold sexual access as demonstration of long term mating value of a male and to get material gains coyness: mechanism for females to exert choice. Males demonstrate their provisioning skills through material resources: social status. Females look for provisioning skills (parental skills, material resources) Females look for genetic quality markes: fluctuating asymmetry, difference in measurements in bilateral elements. Testosterone markers (secondatf sex traits: muscularity, broad shoulders, pronounced chin, brow ridges, facial hair, etc, body -odor due to pheromones.
