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Mr.Thesaxman

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What is the explanation that your textbook gives for why men focus on women's age and physical attractiveness instead of their status and resources?
 
  A) Women invest bodily resources into reproduction.
  B) Men have their own status so they don't need additional status via a woman.
  C) Women have only recently begun to acquire their own resources in most societies.
  D) all of the above

Question 2

To say that a man is physically attractive is to say he shows signs of ________, whereas to say that a woman is attractive is to say that she shows signs of ________.
 
  A) intelligence; youth
  B) status; dominance
  C) youth; status
  D) dominance; fertility



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D



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