Adaptive Hurdles
Altruism
The Basics
Mating
100

Any challenge in your environment that may ruin your chances at reproductive success

What is an adaptive hurdle?

100

This is the idea that you help someone with the expectation of being helped in return

What is reciprocal altruism?

100

The idea that certain qualities in organisms get selected by nature to be replicated

What is natural selection?

100

Being controlling of your partner, for example

What is mate guarding?

200

The possibility of a male unknowingly raising another male’s offspring

What is cuckoldery?

200

This is when an organism facilitates the survival and reproductive ability of its kin

What is kin-selection theory?

200

A specific feature that replicated in order to increase the likelihood of reproductive success

What is an adaptation?

200

Physical attractiveness versus ambition, dependability, and status

What do males look for in a mate compared to females?

300

Often considered the one of the largest adaptive hurdles for both men and women, but for different reasons

What is infidelity?

300

Evolved from the need to track and calculate the costs and benefits of reciprocal altruism

What is mathematical reasoning?

300

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?

300

Of all spheres of behavior, mating strategies most directly bear on this

What is reproductive success?

400

This specific type of infidelity/cheating is specifically more distressing to females than males

What is emotional infidelity/cheating

400

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?

400

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?

400

This is a conspicuous display that a female is near ovulation

What is estrous?

500

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?

500

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?

500

The study of how human culture changes over time due to the environmental differences between generations

What is cultural evolution?

500

The entire set of cognitive processes that underlie mating psychology

What is mating psychology?