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1) In your own words, briefly explain in what ways human sexual conduct differs from other animals.
Humans are different from other animals in so many ways. For starters, I can say that besides bats and elephant shrew humans are the only animals that menstruate because it is in our nature and it is a part of our reproductive cycle. Another way is that human females are more aggressive and males are pickier. However, unlike us human’s holidays and anniversaries have no importance to animals whereas humans are obsessed with them.
2) In your own words, briefly explain how sexual cannibalism is adaptive to reproductive success, as presented in the Diamond article.
“Females had been in consideration to offer adaptive values in term to increase reproductive

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