Evo Psyc Study Guide 4
(note: for comprehensive final all previous study guides plus the following are relevant)
Primate social systems
Old world monkeys
Gibbons
Gorillas
Orangutans
Gorillas
Chimpanzees/bonobos
Hominin social systems
Ardi
Australopiths
H. erectus
Evolutionary dilemma of later hominin social groups
Factors affecting hominin social systems
Parental investment (sexual size dimorphism)
Hand axe as mating signal (effects of sexual selection)
Dietary changes (meat for sex deal)
Cooperative hunting (Schoningen spears)
Sexual division of labor (H. sapiens vs. Neanderthals)
Evolutionary of Human mate attraction
Male/female “advantages” and “disadvantages”
Parental investment vs. parental certainty
female strategy: "good genes" resources
male strategy: youth, beauty, sexual conservatism
Madonna/whore dichotomy
Male jealousy and possessiveness
Sex differences in jealousy
Male mid-life crisis
evolved cuckholdry strategy
Romantic love as pair-bond adaptation
Evidence: universality, distinctive signature, suppression of mate pursuit, strategic
“blindness,” etc.
Neurobio of romantic love
Effects on well-being
Challenges: arranged marriage, divorce, infidelity, polygamy, etc.
Sexual economics
Class of mating strategies: committed vs. promiscuous
Mating strategies and political views
Mating strategies and religion
Mating strategies and recreational drugs
Cross-cultural signaling of males and females
Mate ejection module
Potential adaptive function of mate ejection
Male/female differences
Primary vs. Secondary ejection
Brain studies: connection of love with addiction
Evidence of genetic contribution to mate ejection module
Reproductive variance (male/female differences)
Trivers-Willard hypothesis
T-W effect vs. T-W module
Importance of assessments of maternal condition
Conscious deliberation vs. unconscious biasing mechanism
When is support found and not
Primate infanticide (adaptive value; Sara Hrdy)
Seeds of confusion theory
Human step-parenting and infanticide
Factors associated with infant/child abuse, death or neglect
Step-mothers and the “plight of Cinderella” (Anne Case)
Origins of sibling rivalry
Sexual dimorphism in maturation rates
Alpha mating strategy vs. stealth strategy
Domestic “practice” period
K vs. r reproductive strategies
Factors accelerating female maturation in humans
Adaptive value of early reproduction in human females
Operational sex ratio and poverty: effects on reproduction
Demographic transition: factors behind it
Crazy Bastard Hypothesis
Reproductive value and parental grief