Question

Scholars in various disciplines study and explain human sexuality in different ways. Identify the statements that would be more likely to be made by an evolutionary psychologist than by an anthropologist.

Answer 1

Answer:

These are the options for the question:

• Human sexuality is embedded into genes.
• Human sexuality is heavily influenced by biological drives.
• Scholars should look to culture first in attempting to understand human sexuality.
• Human sexuality is affected by cultural factors as well as biological factors.

And these are the correct answers:

• Human sexuality is embedded into genes.
• Human sexuality is heavily influenced by biological drives.

Explanation:

An evolutionary psychologist would seek biological, genetic, and evolutionary explanations for human sexuality.

Genes and biological drives are two important variables in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology. Biological drives boost evolutionary change in species, while genes encode those changes in order to be passed to the next generations. Thus, these are the kind of variables that an evolutionary psychologist would likely work with.