I just took parts that interested me
women face the threat of being left without the resources needed to successfully raise their children. Ancestral women needed to be sensitive to how well a man could invest in her and her children, and also how likely he would be to continue to do so for the duration of time it took to raise a child to maturity.
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Thus ancestral women also needed to be able to predict, in the absence of observable wealth, which men would be most likely to be good providers in the future. Studies of modern hunter-gatherers' foraging returns further indicate that ancestral men probably did not reach their peak level of productivity until relatively late, for example, in their mid-30s suggesting that the observation of a young man's foraging returns may have provided an imperfect estimation of his potential quality as a provider.
Hmm. . . . .wait what . . .the . . . fukk . . .
Fourth, women display skepticism by often requiring large economic investments before consenting to either marriage or sexual intercourse. Being skeptical of men's intentions, delaying sexual intercourse, and demanding large initial economic investments allow women to better evaluate the true intentions of potential partners and make less costly errors.
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According to life history theory (Bonner, 1965; Hill, 1993), women who are exposed to harsh environments in their childhood may facultatively adjust their reproductive strategies to favor a more short-term oriented strategy, in which there is little expectation of male provisioning after conception (Belsky, Steinberg, & Draper, 1991; Chisholm et al., 1993; Stearns, 1992). Women pursuing this strategy may engage in sexual activity at an earlier age, be more willing to have sexual intercourse early in their relationships, place less emphasis on emotional attachments before sexual intimacy, decrease the duration of relationships, place greater emphasis on immediate resource extraction from sexual partners, and place greater emphasis on indicators of good genes, including physical attractiveness. Several researchers have demonstrated an association between a childhood environment that includes cues to relationship instability—including harsh parenting,
father absence, and socioeconomic stress—and short-term oriented adult mating behaviors
Take care of your daughters dammit
Father absence. The absence of an investing adult male in early childhood is another possible cue that may shift women's reproductive strategies. Draper and Harpending (1982) proposed that the presence or absence of a biological father in the home during early development provides girls with information about the reproductive environment they will likely encounter in adulthood. In fact, girls who grew up in fatherabsent homes are more likely than girls who grew up in homes with a father present to engage in the short-term mating behaviors described above, and they are more likely to begin reproduction early (Ellis et al., 2003). In a study looking at the effect of father absence on girls' orientation toward early parenthood, researchers found that girls who grew up in father-absent homes showed greater interest in infants, measured by time spent looking at images of infants compared to other images, at an earlier age than girls whose fathers has been present in the home (Maestripieri, Roney, DeBias, Durante, & Spaepen, 2004).
Selection Pressures Favoring Dual Mating Offspring success depends in part upon the quality of genes inherited from parents. Because half the child's genes come from its father, but it is the mother who bears the majority of the obligatory costs of reproduction, it is likely that there was strong selection for discriminating mate choice among women on the basis of indicators of good genes. Although the best outcome for an ancestral woman may have been to form a longterm social relationship with a partner who could both invest heavily and transmit good genes to offspring,
several sources of evidence indicate that women probably faced trade-offs in mate choice, and that gaining access to investment and good genes through the same partner was often not possible. (basically had to pick either good genes or proper investing partner
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Similarly, Roney, Hanson, Durante, and Maestripieri (2006) found that women
preferred facial photographs of men who were high in testosterone as short-term mates,
but not as long-term mates. Using the same set of photographs, and with no other information,
women also rated men who had scored high on a measure of interest-in-infants as more attractive as long-term mates, but not as short-term mates, further suggesting the trade-off between investment and heritable quality (Roney et al., 2006).
Body morphology.
Height is also sexually dimorphic and has been linked with reproductive success in men
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I regret ignoring women's advances too as I was afraid i was going to get distracted from school work. Growing up poor really ain't shyt man, the pressure to succeed and make it out the hood really got to me.
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He can test the kids because they would be his too but I know they would be his. It's just the whole disrespect thing. Like, I'm pregnant with your kid and all you can think is im a dirty lying hoe that would not only cheat but get pregnant and make you raise the kid. I don't want to be with someone that thinks of me like that.