The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary
... pair bonding if they failed in this strategy, whereas women evolved to be choosier than men about their sexual partners, and to favor long-term pair bonds with men who helped provide for their offspring. Men court women and compete with one another to gain sexual access to as many women as possible. ...
... pair bonding if they failed in this strategy, whereas women evolved to be choosier than men about their sexual partners, and to favor long-term pair bonds with men who helped provide for their offspring. Men court women and compete with one another to gain sexual access to as many women as possible. ...
The Great Struggles of Life: Darwin and the Emergence of
... is more general than physical contests. If position in status hierarchies influences preferential access to mates, for example, then men can compete with each other for rank and status without a physical contest, and sometimes without interacting with each other at all. Men devote more effort to sta ...
... is more general than physical contests. If position in status hierarchies influences preferential access to mates, for example, then men can compete with each other for rank and status without a physical contest, and sometimes without interacting with each other at all. Men devote more effort to sta ...
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... produce) violated in species where male helps female (humans, birds, many mammals, some fish). However, not likely a general explanation because in most species male does not help. ...
... produce) violated in species where male helps female (humans, birds, many mammals, some fish). However, not likely a general explanation because in most species male does not help. ...
Adaptations to sexual selection and sexual conflict
... from the research summarized above. We expand one example below, focusing on our recent studies of the consequences of manipulating the intensity of sexual selection and conflict in D. melanogaster. We then also describe a new investigation of the evolution of male responses to rivals. To manipulate ...
... from the research summarized above. We expand one example below, focusing on our recent studies of the consequences of manipulating the intensity of sexual selection and conflict in D. melanogaster. We then also describe a new investigation of the evolution of male responses to rivals. To manipulate ...
Animal Clones and Diversity
... has a "twofold advantage" over a corresponding sexual female, who allocates half of her reproductive potential to male offspring. If all else were equal, a parthenogenetic lineage should rapidly replace its sexual counterparts; however, sexual reproduction in fact predominates overwhelmingly in plan ...
... has a "twofold advantage" over a corresponding sexual female, who allocates half of her reproductive potential to male offspring. If all else were equal, a parthenogenetic lineage should rapidly replace its sexual counterparts; however, sexual reproduction in fact predominates overwhelmingly in plan ...
Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock
... pair bonding if they failed in this strategy, whereas women evolved to be choosier than men about their sexual partners, and to favor long-term pair bonds with men who helped provide for their offspring. Men court women and compete with one another to gain sexual access to as many women as possible. ...
... pair bonding if they failed in this strategy, whereas women evolved to be choosier than men about their sexual partners, and to favor long-term pair bonds with men who helped provide for their offspring. Men court women and compete with one another to gain sexual access to as many women as possible. ...
Double Alterity and the Global Historiography of Sexuality: China
... [certain types] of statements come to be comprehensible?” (p.126). To take the insight of historicism seriously, not every statement is comprehensible at all times, either on the individual level or the macro-level of social geobodies or historical epochs. Specifically, in this paper I will focus on ...
... [certain types] of statements come to be comprehensible?” (p.126). To take the insight of historicism seriously, not every statement is comprehensible at all times, either on the individual level or the macro-level of social geobodies or historical epochs. Specifically, in this paper I will focus on ...
Effects of Type of Coping Response, Setting, and Social Janet Sigal,
... type of coping style and the setting (academic vs. business) were completed by students. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire that included two questions about participants’ own experiences with sexual harassment. One question asked if participants knew anyone personally who had been s ...
... type of coping style and the setting (academic vs. business) were completed by students. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire that included two questions about participants’ own experiences with sexual harassment. One question asked if participants knew anyone personally who had been s ...
Client agency reln Adv
... Series of presentations may be necessary to eliminate an agency from consideration. At this step your evaluation team will have the opportunity to share with the agency more information about your sector, your company, your challenges and goals. Each agency has the opportunity to tell you more about ...
... Series of presentations may be necessary to eliminate an agency from consideration. At this step your evaluation team will have the opportunity to share with the agency more information about your sector, your company, your challenges and goals. Each agency has the opportunity to tell you more about ...
Chapter Outline
... and whether her father was present during her early life. Students will find this topic interesting and accessible, and many will have come from backgrounds in which they did not reside full-time with their biological father. This lecture presents some of the most recent evidence for the relationshi ...
... and whether her father was present during her early life. Students will find this topic interesting and accessible, and many will have come from backgrounds in which they did not reside full-time with their biological father. This lecture presents some of the most recent evidence for the relationshi ...
Theories of Sexual Coercion: Evolutionary, Feminist, and Biosocial
... behavior with a female in a way that is not dependent on biological cycles, and therefore can rape. Males at some time realized they could rape, and proceeded to do it (Brownmiller, 1975). Most feminists believe sexual coercion is motivated by a desire to exert control over women and not out of lust ...
... behavior with a female in a way that is not dependent on biological cycles, and therefore can rape. Males at some time realized they could rape, and proceeded to do it (Brownmiller, 1975). Most feminists believe sexual coercion is motivated by a desire to exert control over women and not out of lust ...
reporting sexual assault of women in the military
... the victims have gone to great lengths to expose the crimes and seek help, there remains a huge underreporting problem. There are many legal and social deterrents to reporting a sexual assault in the military. The lack of confidentiality is one major factor that keeps many victims from making a repo ...
... the victims have gone to great lengths to expose the crimes and seek help, there remains a huge underreporting problem. There are many legal and social deterrents to reporting a sexual assault in the military. The lack of confidentiality is one major factor that keeps many victims from making a repo ...
Avian sex determination: what, when and where?
... solely in the embryonic gonads, initiating testicular or ovarian differentiation. The developing gonads then synthesise and release sex steroid hormones to masculinise or feminise the gonadal ducts, external genitalia, brain and other tissues (Romanoff, 1960). In mammals, the key sex determinant is ...
... solely in the embryonic gonads, initiating testicular or ovarian differentiation. The developing gonads then synthesise and release sex steroid hormones to masculinise or feminise the gonadal ducts, external genitalia, brain and other tissues (Romanoff, 1960). In mammals, the key sex determinant is ...
Sex is good for you - Centre for Disability Studies
... extensive definitions of sexual health and also emphasises the importance of sexual self-esteem, including involvement in the wider sexual culture, because sexuality is an integral part of people’s identity, (Coleman, 2002; Edwards and Coleman, 2004). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states ...
... extensive definitions of sexual health and also emphasises the importance of sexual self-esteem, including involvement in the wider sexual culture, because sexuality is an integral part of people’s identity, (Coleman, 2002; Edwards and Coleman, 2004). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states ...
Testing evolutionary hypotheses about human biological adaptation
... that in an Ethiopian population undergoing a period of food shortage, thinner women were significantly more likely to have girls than less thin women. This study is one of the few that has focused on a homogeneous group of women experiencing food shortage, which may be the conditions under which suc ...
... that in an Ethiopian population undergoing a period of food shortage, thinner women were significantly more likely to have girls than less thin women. This study is one of the few that has focused on a homogeneous group of women experiencing food shortage, which may be the conditions under which suc ...
Conditional Expression of Changes in Female Desires and Male
... their time when fertile, a pattern suggesting sexually antagonistic coevolution of female strategy and male counter-strategy. In addition to obtaining intrinsic good genes, extra-pair mating could function to obtain compatible genes, diverse genes, and non-genetic ancestral benefits (e.g., mate-swit ...
... their time when fertile, a pattern suggesting sexually antagonistic coevolution of female strategy and male counter-strategy. In addition to obtaining intrinsic good genes, extra-pair mating could function to obtain compatible genes, diverse genes, and non-genetic ancestral benefits (e.g., mate-swit ...
Sex-Related Euphemism and Dysphemism
... euphemism (i.e. the semantic or formal process by which the taboo is stripped of its most explicit or obscene overtones) or to dysphemism (i.e. the process whereby the most pejorative traits of the taboo are highlighted with an offensive aim to the addressee or to the concept itself). This ambivalen ...
... euphemism (i.e. the semantic or formal process by which the taboo is stripped of its most explicit or obscene overtones) or to dysphemism (i.e. the process whereby the most pejorative traits of the taboo are highlighted with an offensive aim to the addressee or to the concept itself). This ambivalen ...
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
... opening it, and the fear that this will be found out, is expected to further discourage ‘illicit’ sexual act among those women. There is also a belief in some cultures that women’s genitalia are un feminine (mimic males’), ugly or unclean! Quran (Holy book of Islam) devoid of any text includes a ref ...
... opening it, and the fear that this will be found out, is expected to further discourage ‘illicit’ sexual act among those women. There is also a belief in some cultures that women’s genitalia are un feminine (mimic males’), ugly or unclean! Quran (Holy book of Islam) devoid of any text includes a ref ...
between men
... West, but are found everywhere, even in countries where sex between men is highly taboo. All kinds of arrangements can be made, such as meeting regularly in a hotel or hired room, frequently travelling together, or one partner marrying the other’s sister. The emotions experienced by two men in a rel ...
... West, but are found everywhere, even in countries where sex between men is highly taboo. All kinds of arrangements can be made, such as meeting regularly in a hotel or hired room, frequently travelling together, or one partner marrying the other’s sister. The emotions experienced by two men in a rel ...
Mate choice: From sexual cues to cognitive adaptations
... Evolutionary psychologists have successfully combined sexual selection theory and empirical research to compile lists of sexual attractiveness cues used in human mate choice. But a list of inputs is not the same as a normative or descriptive model of a psychological adaptation. We need to shift from ...
... Evolutionary psychologists have successfully combined sexual selection theory and empirical research to compile lists of sexual attractiveness cues used in human mate choice. But a list of inputs is not the same as a normative or descriptive model of a psychological adaptation. We need to shift from ...
Constructing sexual citizenship: theorizing sexual rights
... instance, both moral right and certain feminist critiques reject the conceptualization of the public and the private as distinct spheres where what happens in the private is assumed to have no wider social effects, specifically in this case on male attitudes and behaviour towards women (Cameron and ...
... instance, both moral right and certain feminist critiques reject the conceptualization of the public and the private as distinct spheres where what happens in the private is assumed to have no wider social effects, specifically in this case on male attitudes and behaviour towards women (Cameron and ...
Sex Offenders, Sexuality, and Social Control
... Further, labeling theory, also called social reaction theory, symbolic interactionism, or phenomenology, was concerned with the effects of deeming someone a criminal or deviant and their potential for future deviance. In essence, “The key principle of the interactionist/labeling perspective is that ...
... Further, labeling theory, also called social reaction theory, symbolic interactionism, or phenomenology, was concerned with the effects of deeming someone a criminal or deviant and their potential for future deviance. In essence, “The key principle of the interactionist/labeling perspective is that ...
Advertising appeals in magazine : a framing study
... The presentation of ads in the context of the medium is an interesting study from a framing perspective. Framing as a theoretical concept has largely been used in the context of news and political communication. Social scientists use framing to understand the presentation of events and issues by jou ...
... The presentation of ads in the context of the medium is an interesting study from a framing perspective. Framing as a theoretical concept has largely been used in the context of news and political communication. Social scientists use framing to understand the presentation of events and issues by jou ...
“Sex and Lots of Erotic Art to Prove It: The Erotic art of Pompeii”
... just discussed? It does seem likely and possible that these depictions in the bathhouses were decorated with erotic art for the possible enjoyment of the bather. Also the erotic depictions in the bathhouses could have been used strictly for there visual pleasure. Just like art work lines the halls o ...
... just discussed? It does seem likely and possible that these depictions in the bathhouses were decorated with erotic art for the possible enjoyment of the bather. Also the erotic depictions in the bathhouses could have been used strictly for there visual pleasure. Just like art work lines the halls o ...
XVII WORLD CONGRESS OF SEXOLOGY MONTREAL 2005
... IMPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING Essential Existing training inadequate Not covered at all ‘Sex, sexual relationships and sexual attraction in therapeutic relationship should be mandatory’ ‘It is not only about sexual development and issues of sexual orientation. We have to include functions of sex, how p ...
... IMPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING Essential Existing training inadequate Not covered at all ‘Sex, sexual relationships and sexual attraction in therapeutic relationship should be mandatory’ ‘It is not only about sexual development and issues of sexual orientation. We have to include functions of sex, how p ...
Sex in advertising
Sex in advertising or ""sex sells"" is the use of sex appeal in advertising to help sell a particular product or service. Sexually appealing imagery may or may not pertain to the product or service in question. Examples of sexually appealing imagery include nudity, pin-up girls, and muscular men.The use of sex in advertising can be highly overt or extremely subtle. It ranges from relatively explicit displays of sexual acts, to the use of basic cosmetics to enhance attractive features.