Evolutionary explanation

Question 1

Anisogamy

Answer 1

differences between male and female sex cells

Question 2

Researcher

Answer 2

Buss

Question 3

Buss research

Answer 3

conducted a survey of over 10,000 adults in 33 countries and found that females reported valuing resource-based characteristics when choosing a male and males valued signs of female reproduction such as attractiveness and modernity

Question 4

Methodological issue

Answer 4

his use of questionnaires could lead to social desirability bias with participants answering in socially desirable ways rather than honestly.

Also, 77% of participants were from Western industrial nations which means Buss might have been measuring the effects of culture rather than an evolutionary determined behaviour .