Sexual Selection In The Great Debate

he Great Debate” was an interesting article that helps explain really well the way that genes are passed on from generation to generation. Sexual selection is an important subject which sometimes creates many diversities. After reading the article, I can agree that sexual selection plays a very important role in the development of the human mind. Through generations, all living things came to sexual selection as the way out of obtaining an attractive and intelligent (in human cases) offspring. For the most part we expect to be able to explain most of the characteristics of an organism as adaptations; that is we assume that they have been ‘designed’ by natural selection – the filter which only allows the genes of successful individuals to reach the next …show more content…
The theory of sexual selection, based on the idea of female choice drives the evolution of particular traits, is accepted my most theorists. Currently, sexual selection is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of evolutionary biology and animal behavior. It is important to understand the peculiar history of sexual selection theory because virtually all of 20th century psychology, anthropology, paleontology, and the social sciences and humanities, developed without recognizing that sexual selection could have played any important role in the evolution of the human body, the human mind, human behavior, or human culture. The simplest way to review the current state of sexual selection theory is to explore the different kinds of criteria that animals can use to. This is because we can often view sexual competition within each sex as an outcome of mate choice by the other sex — if “choice” is understood broadly to include processes both conscious and unconscious, and both psychological and physiological. Darwin’s most innovative theory looks more skeptical, and because various ideological biases kept sex marginalized as a topic