Sexual selection

• Men prefer neotenous features- youth and fertility
• Women prefer males with angular faces, height and hair. Suggests testosterone and protectiveness
• Fitness indicators are characteristics the other sex finds attractive
• AO3

  Gender stereotypes

  Alpha Bias

  Temporal validity
• Sexual Dimorphism=

  Difference between appearance of males and females of a species
• Inter-sexual selection- competition between sexes
• Intra-sexual selection- competition between same sex
• Sexy Sons hypothesis- females chose mates most likely to pass on genes which will give male offspring the best chance at reproductive success
• Females have to be choosier, males do not
• A03 - determinism

  the theory suggests all attraction is bio