ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Nba Coach Of The Year Award, Sociobiology, Sexual Selection
25 May 2019
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Sociobiology: the study of the evolution of social behaviour: debate about the ability of science to draw conclusions about animal behaviour in general and human behaviour in particular. Less likely to recognize female assertiveness: we judge these animals by rules for human behaviour and at the same time look to them as role models. The nature and nurturing of sociobiology: misuse of science in the same of social policy, politically repressive ideas by supporting existing inequities between the races, classes, and sexes, women"s movement doomed. Instead, they evolved through sexual selection: useful to one sex (usually males) in fighting for access to members of the other, ex. Alters as weapons; makes them better fighters, get more mates and have more offspring: females pay more attention to these traits and prefer them. Females limited by number of offspring they can successfully produce and rear (set to a low number)
