Part I:
Q1. In terms of behavior, what effects might high male parental investment have on both the males and the females of a species?
Q2. According to Buss, cross-culturally men prefer younger female partners and women prefer older male partners. Why should it be this way around? Is it possible to defend an argument that this is an arbitrary cultural phenomenon?
Part II:
Q1. Baron-Cohen (2002) suggests that differences between males and females can be captured by the systemizing-empathizing axes. To what extent might this explain the lack of female engineers and lack of male kindergarten teachers? Accepting Baron-Cohen's research, should we give up encouraging women to become engineers and just 'let nature take its course'?
Q2. To what extent are the claims that differences between people are innate independent from the claim that similarities between people are innate?