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    questions that people may have about sex, flirting, dating, love, and any other subcategory that falls under personal relationships – these same people may often find it difficult to ask the questions that they have been harboring. Sex is such a taboo topic in America, which unfortunately means that many of these questions go unanswered, leading to confusion, anger, or awkwardness in an individual’s sex life. Author Joann Ellison Rodgers released her book, “Sex: A Natural History”, in 2002; in…

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    aspects. This study used the social structure theory to base their experiment on. “The social structure theory states that most of the sex differences in mating preferences occur because most societies direct men into more advantaged social and economic positions compared to women” (Kennair& Norideide& Stronen,2011). Due to this the theory is trying to say that much of the sex differences in mating preferences will shrink or disappear in societies enforcing gender…

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    Anne Fausto-Sterling’s “Dueling Dualisms” explores the concept of gender and sex through society’s perspective. Fausto-Sterling initiates the selection by introducing readers to the story of Maria Patiño. Patiño who is a Spanish Olympic hurdler who was forced to have a sex test to prove her sexuality. She tested positive for being a male and was eventually “barred from competing on Spain’s Olympic team” (Fausto-Sterling, 4). Readers eventually learned that the reason why Patiño tested positive…

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    Stephanie Okolo BIO 119-001 18 April 2016 How female choice governs sexual selection. Sexual selection is perhaps one of the most intriguing phenomena in the mammalian kingdom. It is the functional relationship between phenotypes and fitness that enables successful genes of parents to be passed down to their progeny. One important mechanism of sexual selection is how we have evolved to have complete autonomy with whom we reproduce with, especially how that choice relies heavily with females.…

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    Before this, stereotype happen around the world when want to choose a leader in management, organization and business. Discrimination against women in leadership selection happens in every country in the world. Widespread discrimination is clearly evident in the low number of women who hold important, high‐level leadership positions in most types of organizations. The strong tendency to favor men over women in filling…

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    Literature Review Caitlin Dickson 44760191 Target Article Puts, DA, Jones, BC and DeBruine, LM. 2012. Sexual selection on human faces and voices. Journal of Sex Research, 49(2–3), 227–243. This article argues that the sexually dimorphic traits of vocal cords and facial structure in humans evolved due to sexual selection. The authors focus on two main arguments; that female mate choice and competition between males shaped both of these characteristics, particularly in men. Researchers used…

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    offspring.” In order to seek for a mate, Puts tells us that women were competing to be the most attractive ones because more physically attractive women demand greater male investment and other direct and indirect benefits. Miller et al explain: “The sex that invests less in offspring (typically males, who minimally invest sperm, compelred with females, who minimally invest eggs, gestation, lactation and other care) should devote proportionately more mating effort to short-term…

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    male under evolutionary standards and how the two sexes contribute to reproduction. Under biological terms, a female is the sex that produces the ova or egg, which is the larger sex gamete. The egg is large because it contains nutrients and material needed for the development of offspring as well as the DNA of the mother(Gilbert 2000). Meanwhile, a male is defined as the sex that produces the sperm, which is the smaller gamete. The sperm is composed solely of a haploid nucleus (DNA) and a…

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    Women are expected to provide when it comes to sex, on-screen and off. Sexual pleasure is something that must be given to a man rather than felt by the female herself. The audience for film and television is typically assumed to consist entirely of heterosexual, highly masculine men. Movies and television…

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    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…

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