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First Last Number Sex preference One topic that I found interesting at www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep is adapting minds. An article done by Barkow, Cosmide and Tooby in which they are trying to explore a new approach to viewing how the human mind has contributed to the evolution (Delton et al. 1). Here, they develop a new view to the human brain as composed of the complex system of specialized functional computers in which each system behaves as if it contains the structure of mental organization and culture.

A contradiction to the traditional view in which the mind was only taken to be a general purpose computer. This new approach in adapting mind uses evolutionary psychology approach to explaining how a collection of conscious mental programs have constantly evolved to solve the adaptive problems such as language acquisition, mate selection, cooperation and sexual infidelity (Delton et al. 1).It is also interesting how the others talk about the mate preference. According to the evidence and evolutionary theory, psychology has developed male mates prefer to date young female mates.

While, female mates prefer high status male mates because it seems rather obvious. The authors also explain that in real-life contexts, male mate prefer younger female mate and female prefer high status male mates, but it is rather astonishing as the theory suggests that the evolution as played a role in this mate preference. David Buller, a critique of the theory and results from evolutionary psychology, dismissed such claims (Delton et al. 1).According to this theory of evolution and psychology, sex preference development is a biological process and evolve as people adapt to the environmental changes (Delton et al. 2). The development of the sex preference takes place due to the pressure of the physical and social environment.

Women and men differ in sexual preference since both are faced with different physical and social environment (Delton et al. 1). For example, when looking for a mating partner, female mates are more concern with the security and survival of their offspring, therefore, they will seek for men with such qualities. Men, on the other hand, are less concern with the reproductive. According to this theory, the psychological difference between men and women also helps explain their sexual difference in sexual preference.

Women and men occupy a different role in the society, therefore, are faced with different pressure (Delton et al. 3). According to Buller, no solid empirical results as ever been produced by evolutionary psychology. He went ahead to dismiss the claim that women prefer high status men saying such claims are nonexistence (Delton et al. 1). I find it very interesting to explain the difference in sexual preference using the evolution theory of psychology. The sex preference might have been a more complicated as claimed by Buller, but, the evolution theory is no doubt a significant contribution in the mix.

For example, in the case of a young boy and an elderly widower. These two people are faced with circumstances that are very different from each other and also they are at different stages of their lives. As a result, they will not pick on identical mates..Reference Delton, Andrew W, Theresa E. Robertson and Douglas T. Kenric. The mating game isn’t over: A reply to Buller’s critique of the Evolutionary Psychology of Mating. Evolution Psychology vol 4. 2006. Web. 28th April. 2014. http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/ep042622732.pdf