Reproduction

It is clear that both Kubrick and Burgess have made their effort in trying to address the problem of whether or not prefer the inequality between men and women. Throughout the story, there are numerous scenes in which female characters are degraded; whether it is a girl being raped or getting killed. Even the surroundings in the stories, like the sculptures, are extremely sexist in a way that disturbs the audiences to some extent. I will argue that Burgees and Kubrick’s main focus is to…

Who really owns our bodies? Is it us, our parents, the government, the state, or even a higher power? These questions spark a fair amount of discussion throughout our country. Specifically who has the power to choose if you can have children. When people have trouble with this there is a simple answer: Go to a sperm bank or adopt children. People that want the actual experience of being pregnant will most likely choose to go a sperm bank and get it surgically implanted. The big question is: Is…

who are rumored to have selected the sex of their second child.1 The article suggests that sex selection maybe acceptable for medical reasons, but it also calls into question the morality of the practice for social purposes. The Center for Human Reproduction defines sex selection as “a fertility procedure used to choose the gender of a baby prior to conception”.2 In this paper, I will address the use of sex selection for social purposes, leaving aside its use for medical purposes. To do so, I…

Kuhelj and Virant-Doberlet conducted their study, “Male-Male interactions and male mating success in the leafhopper Aphrodes makarovi” in order to be able to determine how male-male interaction is correlated to their reproductive success. The researchers had first hypothesized that a female leafhopper is more likely to mate with male who exhibits a higher effort in their calls. The males with the longer or louder call would be more likely to get a longer response from the female, which in the…

Evolutionary considerations of mate choice date back to Darwin (1871), when he proposed a mechanism know as sexual selection. This proposed mechanism can explain characteristics like plumage of peacocks, fight in elephant seals over females mate, longer neck in giraffes to exhibit dominance in females and so on. These characteristics contradict natural selection (survival of fittest). Sexual selection can be divided into two processes, namely intersexual and intrasexual selection (Buss, 1986).…

After studying the Sifakas physical traits, I decided to turn my attention to its social characteristics. It is indeed a very social creature. It interacts with other “troops” as it’s called. The males are also very competitive for mates, but submissive to females when it comes to food and shelter. Their young have a rather long maturation period compared to other animals, so they rely on their mothers to nurture them until the can reach around full size around a year old. The Sifakas are a…

Social reproduction takes root from the idea that throughout generations people tend to remain in the same social class as their past relatives. Based on trends in history, people usually do not stray far from the social classes of their parents and people before them as rising to higher social classes has become difficult. In order to establish a clear understanding of social reproduction, one can talk about the correlation between socioeconomic status of students and the level of academic…

Male traits signal health and vigor, which are used to choose a mate, this may differ among populations. The female chooses a mate with the ability to provide resources for breeding, like food and parental care; which is important to the female and those that have genetic qualities like immunity which is passed to the offspring. Sometimes the mate choice is based upon the male’s secondary sexual trait. Some females prefer male-male competition to select a mate. Some select according to size or…

Frances Simonson S00150675 Tutor: Richard Wade UNCC300 Assessment Task 2 Human dignity is a complex notion that encompasses inherent and acquired types of dignity. It becomes especially complex when the topic houses a number of opinions, emotions and ethical standpoints on a given topic. This is especially true for the chosen case study: human dignity and gender selection. There are a number of consequences to selecting a child?s gender- both positive and negative. These consequences are…

The most important aspect of olive baboons mating systems is their involvement in consortships. Male baboons will follow female baboons around, guarding them from other males and participating in frequent grooming and sexual mountings (Bercovitch 1983). Due to the fact that other male olive baboons often harass couples in consortship, often there is a large male turnover during a single female fertility period—thus their polyandrous behavior. Female baboons often consort with an average of…