In the “Moral Animal” the author presents a study about what undesirable actions by one’s partner to men and women react more, infidelity or falling in love with someone else. The study showed that, when asked to imagine their partner… Read moreWhat men and women fear most – Evolution 4

Regnerus focuses a lot on the ability of men to view the mating market as bifurcated, seeing a clear distinction between acting with sex in mind and acting with marriage (commitment, reproduction, male paternal investment) in mind. Their ability to… Read moreWhy can men separate the sex/marriage market – Evolution 3

Present in almost every single human society has been the expectation that females be much more selective in their choice of sexual partners than men. In many of these cases, the expectations for female behavior are actually self-imposed, with other… Read moreReasons for female sexual selectivity – Evolution 2

The hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution took place in an environment that we in the first world are incredibly unfamiliar with. We know about the tribes of hunters and gatherers, small groups of people roaming around, and… Read moreThe Evolutionary Environment – Evolution 1

I am going to be writing a series of blog posts on the evolutionary perspective that Professor Riley alluded to when we began discussing the book “Cheap Sex”. I have been interested in evolutionary psychology for a long time and… Read moreEvolution Series Intro