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Question: What do men like about women and why?
Answer: Evolutionary psychology accounts for one possible explanation of what men look for in women. The theory claims that men are not as reliant on their mate as women are on men therefore men are not as strongly oriented as women to spending their entire lives with only one mate, thus the woman's desire to have one mate to help raise her children pressures males to be monogamous. However if men do not want monogamy, it may result in them settling for a lower quality of woman since the high quality women choose their mate based on his commitment to monogamy. But, mutual selection occurs in marriages, so the man can choose his mate, just as the woman chooses him, and often his criterion is based on very different qualities than the woman's....(short extract)
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- Subject: Psychology
- Course: Developmental and Evolutionary Psy
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 70%
- Words: 2877
- Date submitted: April 09, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2869
