1. Adaptations Are: built of existing variation (mutations). often formed slowly often formed cumulatively specialized costly and: may be out of date The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA)

2. Cognitive adaptations: Not general-purpose fitness maximizer. Rules of thumb: Sex feels good, even with birth control Masturbation feels good Adoptive parents feel parental love Emotional systems as internal rewards.

3. Evolution by Natural Selection tends to make the mean phenotype converge on the optimum. trait value frequency

4. Evolution by Natural Selection tends to make the mean phenotype converge on the optimum. trait value frequency

5. Evolution by Natural Selection tends to make the mean phenotype converge on the optimum. trait value frequency

6. Sexual reproduction continually generates variation around the optimum.

7. Sexual Selection Type of natural selection. Selection builds adaptations of all types. Sexual selection builds adaptations that increase mating success: 1. more mates 2. better mates

8. Selection builds adaptations that address recurring problems... faced by our ancestors. Would the challenges of mate choice have been the same for ancestral males and females? Theory of sexual selection says probably not. Male reproductive success is less limited than female reproductive success.

12. Challenges for ancestral males: quantity. Challenges for ancestral females: quality. Likely to produce divergent adaptations: Two optimal phenotypes

13. trait value frequency

14. Date solicitation experiment Confederates asked unsuspecting subjects for a date. Variable: coffee, apartment visit, sex. Acceptance rate?

15. Date solicitation experiment Confederates asked unsuspecting subjects for a date. Variable: coffee, apartment visit, sex. Acceptance rate? WomenMen Coffee50%50% Apartment 6%69% Sex 0%75%

16. Evidence in favor of evolution 1.Existence and pattern of the fossil record. 2.Homology.

19. Evidence in favor of evolution 1.Existence and pattern of the fossil record. 2.Homology. 3.Universality of genetic code. 4.Analogy with plant and animal breeding. 5.Direct observation.