Adaptive Hurdles
Any challenge in your environment that may ruin your chances at reproductive success
What is an adaptive hurdle?
This is the idea that you help someone with the expectation of being helped in return
What is reciprocal altruism?
The idea that certain qualities in organisms get selected by nature to be replicated
What is natural selection?
Being controlling of your partner, for example
What is mate guarding?
The possibility of a male unknowingly raising another male’s offspring
What is cuckoldery?
This is when an organism facilitates the survival and reproductive ability of its kin
What is kin-selection theory?
A specific feature that replicated in order to increase the likelihood of reproductive success
What is an adaptation?
Physical attractiveness versus ambition, dependability, and status
What do males look for in a mate compared to females?
Often considered the one of the largest adaptive hurdles for both men and women, but for different reasons
What is infidelity?
Evolved from the need to track and calculate the costs and benefits of reciprocal altruism
What is mathematical reasoning?
This happens when qualities that evolved to deal with past environments no longer meet the needs of a species modern environment
What is an evolutionary mismatch?
Of all spheres of behavior, mating strategies most directly bear on this
What is reproductive success?
This specific type of infidelity/cheating is specifically more distressing to females than males
What is emotional infidelity/cheating
This idea is rooted in reciprocal altruism because if someone cheats on a social contract, that behavior signals that that person may not reciprocate altruism
What is cheater detection?
Genes that have qualities specifically good for further their replication will be more likely to have their qualities exist in the future
What is (the concept of) the selfish gene?
This is a conspicuous display that a female is near ovulation
What is estrous?
Instead of engaging in physical violence, women often use these tactics to ruin other women’s reputations to potential mates
What are rival-derogation tactics?
A relatively long life span, the ability to identify conspecifics, and the tendency to live in relatively stable groups
What are the characteristics for reciprocal altruism to characterize that species?
The study of how human culture changes over time due to the environmental differences between generations
What is cultural evolution?
The entire set of cognitive processes that underlie mating psychology
What is mating psychology?