Mate choice and attractiveness:
1. Why might men and women have competing reproductive interests or reproductive strategies? That is, how might men and women differ in terms of how they maximize their reproductive success?
a. Know the problems associated with Bateman's experiment on fruit flies and the stereotypes of how males and females maximize their reproductive success.
2. What is the evolutionary explanation for what humans and other animals find sexually attractive?
a. What is the handicap hypothesis and what predictions does the theory make?
b. What characteristics "should" humans find attractive in potential sexual partners and why?
c. Why do we have preferences regarding MHC genes, body symmetry, particular facial dimensions and averageness?
3. Understand the significance of the different traits women may prefer in long-term and short-term sexual partners
a. What is the explanation offered by evolutionary psychologists for changes in the mate preferences of heterosexual women across the menstrual cycle?