Sex and Evolution University of Washington, SeattleBIO A 208Assignment 8.

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Bass 1 Carter Bass Professor Hill Sex and Evolution 28 February 2020 1. The anthropologist Donald Symons famously wrote that “beauty is in the adaptations of the beholder.” What might he hav... e meant? 2. Why, from the perspective of ultimate causation, do men more than women attend to physical attractiveness in potential mates? 3. How true is it to say that men prefer youth in female mates? To the extent that this statement is correct, why might such a preference have been reproductively advantageous for ancestral males? 4. To what degree do men’s mate preferences accord with their mating behavior? 5. Which variables influence the potential for and strength of sexual selection in men? 6. How can we tell that a trait has likely been shaped by sexual selection? 7. Evaluate the major lines of evidence suggesting that intrasexual selection via contest competition has shaped men’s traits. [Show More]

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