Title: Sexual Selection & Reproductive Behaviour Learning Objective: To understand What males & females want from a sexual partner & how they get it!!

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Title: Sexual Selection & Reproductive Behaviour Learning Objective: To understand What males & females want from a sexual partner & how they get it!! On your whiteboards draw and label your perfect partner! What attributes do they have and WHY….

Key Terms: Match up their definitions Sexual Selection Intra-sexual Selection Inter-sexual Selection Human reproductive behaviour Reproductive Success

What do Men want? What do women want? Men: many partners to increase their success of reproduction; passing on the genes! Women: Less partners, due to biological investment in children. So… ◦Men who have; resources to invest, can offer protection (strong), promise of a good parent, little to cost to themselves & offspring!

How they get it?? 1. Read the research 2. How does it support how women & men get what they want? 3. Add Evaluation & Link PEE EL

Clarke & Hatfield Clarke & Hatfield (1989) So how many said yes…. 1. to go on a date 2. to my apartment 3. to have sex Women 1. 50% 2. 6% 3. 0% Men 1. 50% 2. 69% 3. 75% How does it support how women & men get what they want? Buss & Schmitt (1993) Men would like an average of 18 partners in their lives, whereas women aim for an average of 4 or 5!

Miller et al (2007) How do men know women are fertile? Compared the number of tips lap dancers got across one month. During their fertile stage, when they were ovulating, the dancers received twice as many tips! How does it support how women & men get what they want?

Discuss the relationship between sexual selection & human reproductive behaviour (24 marks) AO1: What men & women want & How they get it! AO2: 4xPEEEL Research support + ISSUES/DEBATES/APPROACHES ◦GRAVE & GRENADE! ◦LINK!!!