The main purpose in life is to reproduce offspring that will carry on your history after you pass away. Reproduction occurs when a male and female get intimate with each other. The only way that could happen is if they really prefer each other. Preferences for sexual reproduction started with Darwin when he proposed “sexual selection” rather than natural selection (Buss and Barnes, 1986). This occurred when Darwin saw an evolutionary change in peacocks that was not for survival, but to attract mates for reproduction (Buss and Barnes, 1986). Sexual selection is important in humans because that is how they obtain mates to pass down genes. Men compete for their partner, while women choose their partner (Molumby, 90). Males produce a lot of small gametes which contributes to the DNA and also the small gametes produce more copies of their genes; while females
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With this in mind, the female wants a male who has the ability to take care of the family. College students are not looking to start a family yet, so that is why wealth is not important for females in males right now in college. A previous study done by researchers in 1981 has supported the prediction of evolutionary psychology in 37 different cultures, because more females valued good financial prospects as really important in males than males in females (Buss, 1989) . For example, in North America where they studied 66 males and 113 females around the ages of 20, they found that females listed wealth in males at an importance of 1.96 out of 3, with 3 being the most important value (Buss, 1989). Also, unlike our data, males in North America placed high importance in good looks in females at an average at 2.11 out of 3. It could be that females now place less value on wealth, because they don’t want to depend on males as much as they used
With this in mind, the female wants a male who has the ability to take care of the family. College students are not looking to start a family yet, so that is why wealth is not important for females in males right now in college. A previous study done by researchers in 1981 has supported the prediction of evolutionary psychology in 37 different cultures, because more females valued good financial prospects as really important in males than males in females (Buss, 1989) . For example, in North America where they studied 66 males and 113 females around the ages of 20, they found that females listed wealth in males at an importance of 1.96 out of 3, with 3 being the most important value (Buss, 1989). Also, unlike our data, males in North America placed high importance in good looks in females at an average at 2.11 out of 3. It could be that females now place less value on wealth, because they don’t want to depend on males as much as they used