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SEX. By: Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph. Introduction. Explaining, Predicting, and Controlling Sex Judeo-Christian Western Liberal Social Science Tabula Rasa Behaviorism Teaching and Learning (guns and dolls) Sociobiology.

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  1. SEX By: Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph

  2. Introduction • Explaining, Predicting, and Controlling Sex • Judeo-Christian • Western Liberal • Social Science • Tabula Rasa • Behaviorism • Teaching and Learning (guns and dolls) • Sociobiology

  3. From Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology • Early Pioneers • Sociobiology • Edward O. Wilson, Human Nature • Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene • Evolutionary Psychology • Tooby and Wilson, Homicide

  4. Game Theory • Population Dynamics • Universality • Evolutionarily Stable Strategies (ESS) • Unconditional Strategies • Doves • Hawks • Conditional Strategies • Bullies • Retaliators

  5. Evolutionary Psychology • Underlying Assumptions • Natural Selection and Sexual Selection • Mind is produced by the brain • The human brain has been profoundly shaped by social relationships. Esp. sex (male and female preferences) • The brain has adapted to reproductive problems that human beings faced in the Pleistocene era. • The “Modular Theory of the Brain.” • The brain as a “Swiss Army Knife” • Sexual Dimorphism: The brains and bodies of males and females evolved under different environmental conditions • Mothers and Gatherers • Warriors and Hunters • Time Lags: Because cultural evolution takes place at a much faster pace, the human brain may be maladapted to deal with our current environment (political, social, technological, biological).

  6. Issues • Comparative mating: Animals v. Humans • Cultural Influence • Variability of male and female bodies and behavior (male-female continuum) • Self Interest and Cooperation: altruism, kin altruism, reciprocal altruism • How do two different kinds of human brains cooperate long enough to produce offspring? • Bearing of Offspring • Concealed Estrus • Dating Practices • Body Signals • Caring of Offspring • Reproductive Strategies • R strategy • K strategy • Puzzles • Marital Arrangement • Monogamy • Polygamy • Polyandry • Serial Monogamy (7 year itch?) • Sex for fun • Sex outside of marriage • Male and Female Orgasms • Homosexuality • Menopause • Relationship Violence • jealousy • retribution • Infanticide

  7. Males

  8. Females

  9. How Malleable are Sex Roles? • Change the Environment • Teaching and Learning • Change the Body • Sex Change Operations • Hormone Therapy

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