Men's Basic Sexual Strategy Involves Having Multiple Partners and Investing

question 109

Multiple Choice

Men's basic sexual strategy involves having multiple partners and investing relatively little in any of the resulting children. But evolutionary psychology argues that people are motivated not only to reproduce, but to have their offspring survive to adulthood so they can also reproduce. This suggests that men ought to have a second sexual strategy in which a man:

• A) chooses women capable of raising their children alone
• B) provides resources to raise all of his children
• C) commits to one woman and helps raise their children
• D) a and c

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