What Is Human Mate Selection

Human Mate Choice

Introduction: There are two types of sexes which are males and females. These two sexes developed different strategies to survive and have a reproductive success for future generation. It is said that there are more male gametes than female gametes which therefore females can be much choosier who they want to be with. Women invested greatly in reproduction of offspring because they wanted to improve the chances that their offspring will survive. While men are less concerned about reproduction and less choosy about their mates (Wood & Eagly, 2002). For many species, male reproductive success is a factor of the number of mates, but female reproductive success is not. Back in the old days and some country today, men are

It is suggested that women prefer men that would not cheat on them and men having an intelligent partner. If these requirements are met, reproductive straggles is not a problem.

How much of this do you think is cultural, and how much is biological?

I think cultural plays a big part of the ranking because different part of the world view things differently and have different taste than other people from different culture. It is not much biological because now we have preference.

Are college-age women and men interested in partners of different ages? Why might this be the case, or not be the case?

For woman, their ideal age of a mate is two years older than them and the youngest they accept as a partner is almost one year younger than them. They would also accept as a partner with a 9-year gap between them. College-age women are more interested in partners of different ages because maybe they want a mature partner and not a young man who does not know what to do with its life yet.

For men, their ideal age is the same age as them and the youngest they accept as a partner is two years younger than them while they would accept a partner with a 7-year gap between. College-age men are more interested in their own age because young girl are immature and older women is not as

There was a difference between the interests of males and females when placing personal adds because of the total number of adds we got, 100% of the time are male seeking for sex while women had 75% seeking for sex.

Conclusion

Evolutionary psychology predicted that men would be attracted to younger women who are able to reproduce to make babies and women would be more attracted to powerful men with lots of money but looking at our results we found that wealthy men or men in general does not try look for younger women to be with. Men that were age 20s to late 30s were more interested in women close to their age or the same age. Age from 50s people were more interested in younger women. For women, they weren’t looking for a man with lots of wealth because this generation, women are more independent and can support themselves. They no longer need to depend on their mate because she’s able to make money too. Our class average, the females voted wealth as the second highest of not being important because today’s century, women can finically support themselves. Evolutionary psychology predictions is not as accurate in this today’s century because our preference have changed while some still meet the evolutionary psychology’s prediction. According to our data, women seek men that has sense of humor, fidelity commitment and share the same values. Those are the top 3 that