Week 3 — Mating and reproduction

Lectures in this week

• 3.1 Mating fundamentals

  Parental investment as the engine of sex differences.

• 3.2 Female mate preferences

  Choosing for resources, protection, and good genes.

• 3.3 Male mate preferences

  Cues to fertility and the problem of paternity.

• 3.4 Short-term and long-term strategies

  A pluralistic menu of conditional mating tactics.

• 3.5 Attraction, beauty, and signals of fitness

  Why beauty standards are partly universal.

• 3.6 Jealousy, conflict, and mate retention

  Jealousy as an evolved anti-cuckoldry mechanism.

• 3.7 Parental investment and parenting

  Why parents invest, and why conflict is built in.