Biologically Based Mechanisms: enable us to take in, process, and respond to information, predisposing us to behave, to feel, and even to think in specific ways
Evolution: change over time in the frequency with which particular genes and the characteristics they produce occur within an interbreeding population
Natural Selection: characteristics that increase the likelihood of survival and reproduction within a particular environment will be more likely to be preserved in the population and, therefore, will become more common in the species over time
Adaptations: physical or behavioral changes that allow organisms to meet recurring environmental challenges to their survival, thereby increasing their reproductive ability.
Evoked Culture: Cultures may themselves be products of biological mechanisms that evolved to meet specific adaptation challenges faced by specific groups of people in specific places at specific times.
Sexual Strategies Theory: mating strategies and preferences reflect inherited tendencies, shaped over the ages in response to different types of adaptive problems that men and women faced
Social Structure Theory: maintain that men and women display different mating preferences not because nature impels them to do so but because society guides them into different social roles.
Strategic Pluralism: the idea that multiple- even contradictory- behavioral strategies
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