The parental investment model and Bateman’s theory in respect of their ability to explain human mate selection.
Darwin said, for the intent of surviving every species reproduce, whether they stay or leave after the offspring is born. Naturally males can reproduce more offspring than females as they are limited by the time, the carry their offspring which is for about nine months whereas, males just need a fertile female in order to reproduce. Brown, Laland and Mulder (2009). Many people have ideas on how males and females choose their mate (sexual partner), when choosing a mate, most say that opposite attract however we are all likely to commit to someone who is similar to us in almost every way. (Cited in American Scientist). In this essay I am going use Bateman theory and mostly parental investment model to explain why females are choosier when it comes to …show more content…
This is because males are easily more sexually aroused visual stimuli and frequently than females, when male and female expose themselves voluntarily to erotic stimuli, recent studies indicate that they usually experience sexual arousal, they tell very little about sexuality as it exist in ordinary (Symons 1980:177). This may come into the equation when female select whom they mate with.
As you can see in this essay Bateman’s theory sets the basis for Trivers parental investment model which means that Trivers theory is the in depth version of Bateman’s. Whereas Bateman’s theory just ends in the conception of the offspring, Trivers’ gives an idea of what happens after conception and why humans select their mate especially female according to what happens to the offspring form the conception to adulthood. With Trivers theory we can understand that, females are not only looking out for themselves when choosing a mate but their offspring therefore they tend to be the choosier
Darwin said, for the intent of surviving every species reproduce, whether they stay or leave after the offspring is born. Naturally males can reproduce more offspring than females as they are limited by the time, the carry their offspring which is for about nine months whereas, males just need a fertile female in order to reproduce. Brown, Laland and Mulder (2009). Many people have ideas on how males and females choose their mate (sexual partner), when choosing a mate, most say that opposite attract however we are all likely to commit to someone who is similar to us in almost every way. (Cited in American Scientist). In this essay I am going use Bateman theory and mostly parental investment model to explain why females are choosier when it comes to …show more content…
This is because males are easily more sexually aroused visual stimuli and frequently than females, when male and female expose themselves voluntarily to erotic stimuli, recent studies indicate that they usually experience sexual arousal, they tell very little about sexuality as it exist in ordinary (Symons 1980:177). This may come into the equation when female select whom they mate with.
As you can see in this essay Bateman’s theory sets the basis for Trivers parental investment model which means that Trivers theory is the in depth version of Bateman’s. Whereas Bateman’s theory just ends in the conception of the offspring, Trivers’ gives an idea of what happens after conception and why humans select their mate especially female according to what happens to the offspring form the conception to adulthood. With Trivers theory we can understand that, females are not only looking out for themselves when choosing a mate but their offspring therefore they tend to be the choosier