Question

5. How did sex start?

6. What’s “the war between the sexes” refer to?

7. Why did the idea of female choice driving sexual selection take so long to be accepted?

8. You don’t have to write this down, but be sure you understand the peacock experiment.

Answer 1

Ans 5) The whole things about $ex started with the concept that the egg and sperm meet, and they can produce offspring. Although sexual reproduction was always a part of producing offspring but the understanding of intercourse started very late. Initially as seen in flowers, they relied on different carriers to carry the spore and pollinate. Male has the innate ability to have or think about it with the penetrating organ and female only had the area to receive. The process of internal fertilization through intercourse and it is an art of performing between two opposite sex that are attracted to each other. The human sexual behavior started with the understanding that it is pleasure and also have the capacity to reproduce and produce an offspring. Hence the start of sex was primarily driven by the ability to reproduce and it also releases hormones which gives pleasure and happiness.

Ans 6) The war between sexes is how the two opposite sex i.e male and female are constantly at war due to their difference physiologically, behaviorally and psychologically. The male has always considered them to be superior over female and this is the beginning of war between sexes when one wants to dominate and other doesn’t want to dominate. It can be based on anything right from defining gender role to sexual dominance.

Ans 7) The female driven sexual selection is one where the female compete with each other to show their fitness and characteristics to mate and chose their male partner and produce offspring. This concept took long to be accepted because male has always been considered sexually dominant and also the societal conditioning and taboo leads to a lot of women being submissive. Generally, in majority of the species the males show their superior traits to woo the female to mate with and produce offspring. Due to the change in the gender role, it took time for the acceptance.