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Anthro Final
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
03/25/2013

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Term
Sex
Definition
refers to anatomy, male or female
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Gender
Definition
refers to learned culture, psychology, and behavior that one associates with male or female (masculine or feminine
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Sexual dimorphism
Definition
Differences in form between sex
Term
Examples of sexual dimorphism
Definition
-Males are 10% bigger
-Voice
-Fat
-Breast
-BUTT ("baby got back")
-Muscle tone
-Hair (Pubes)
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Sexual Selection
Definition
differences between the sexes that evolve through male v. male and female v. female competition
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Tendencies discovered world-wide
Definition
• More men than women want/approve of casual sex
• More men than women report orgasms more often
• Men seek out sex more
• Men start sex at a younger age
• Men have more sex partners over a lifetime than women
• Men like sex for its own sake whereas women have emotions
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