I'm afraid I'm not going to be in school today - I have a sore throat and a bad head.
Make notes from the section in your textbook on Sexual Selection and Human Reproductive behaviour - if you can in time for our lesson tomorrow which I expect to be back for.
You need outlines of the methods and findings of studies which show there are differences in sexual behaviour and mate choice preferences between human males and females, and ideas as to how you can evaluate these (e.g. in terms of sample bias, culture bias, participant reactivity). These include the research by Clark and Hatfield (into enthusiasm for casual sex) and Buss (into differences in sexual jealousy) which we looked at briefly as part of the Gender topic.
You also need to make sure you can explain how Parental Investment Theory and Sexual Strategies Theory explain each of these differences. Sexual Strategies isn't really an alternative to PIT - more of an update which suggests that both sexes could benefit from 'cheating', and adopting different 'strategies' for reproduction at different times.
Once again the key debates, which should feature in your notes, are reductionism and Nature vs Nurture - make sure you can see how to use these to evaluate the theories.
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