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Natural Selection Helps Explain Similarities

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Natural Selection Helps Explain Similarities

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- In a bigger picture, our lives are remarkably alike.
- Behavioral/Biological similarities arise from shared human genomes.
- Similarities appear in those whose mating produced mature offspring.

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The socially influenced characteristics that a person defines themselves, particularly, people define with genes into the future.

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An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

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An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

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How might an evolutionary psychologist explain gender differences in mating preferences?
An evolutionary explanation of human sexuality is that men are much more eager to have sex than a woman is. This is because, the more a man sleeps with a women, his chances of spreading his genes increase. Women on the other hand, because they are the ones who give birth to the children, try to search for a partner who has good resources and a good potential for a long-term relationship. They are not as eager to jump into bed with a stranger.

Men are more likely to initiate sexual activity then women.

Men have lower thresholds for perceiving warm/friendly, responses from women as a sexual turn-on. This is what results in most of (not all) causes of harassment and rape.

Nature selects behaviors that increase the likelihood of sending ones genes into the future.

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What are the key criticisms of evolutionary psychology?
One of the main criticisms of evolutionary psychology is that there is too little emphasis on the social influences that determine people taking responsibility for their own sexual behavior.

Who we are is not "hard-wired" in to our systems and what we consider attractive varies with time.

Social expectations shape our gender differences in mate preferences.

How we came to be, does not determine how we should be.

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Essentially, when and environment changes and a mutation in a population proves to be beneficial, it is selected in favor of. The population with that mutation will be more likely to survive and have a larger impact on the gene pool.

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- Organisms' varied offspring complete for survival
- Certain biological/behavioral variation increase their reproductive and survival changes in the in environments
- Offspring that survive are more likely to pass on their genes to ensure generation
- Thus, over time, population characteristics may change.

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Use Darwin's theory of Natural Selection to understand roots of mental behaviors and processes.