AUBREY NATVIVITY O.

YANGZON
BS PSYCHOLOGY
GEC ELECT 3 – HUMAN REPRODUCTION

The paper “Energetics, Sociality, and Human Reproduction: Life History Theory in

Real Life” by Carol M. Worthman is a lengthy paper to ready but the topic is interesting to

those who want to know about human reproduction. This essay seeks to create a new view of

human fertility by considering the intersection of three, conduct and family creation theory of

life history, behavioral and reproductive ecology, and psychobiology for creators. There are

evolutionary and functional analyses that indicate the need to extend existing human fertility

demographic models to include architecture and human development aspects. Each level of

analysis indicates that human reproduction requires far more than fertility, evolutionary,

ecological, and developmental, and recognizes essential variables for successful human

reproduction that deserve more focus in demographic analysis.

This document was divided specifically into 5 parts, the importance of bio culture,

translation and transmission of evolved design, sociality and multitasking in life history,

epigenesis and rearing environments and implications for research and policy. Then in the

five parts there are special topics that they discussed. Under the importance of bio culture is

the life history theory and energetics, energy and time, trade-offs, human life history strategy

and challenges for life history theory. Then on translation and transmission of evolved

design are age and menarche, two mediating mechanism, endocrine architecture of life

history and bio cultural inheritance and fertility behavior. Then on sociality and multitasking

in life history are the need for resource sharing, sociodynamics, cognition and learning, the

adaptive value of social relationships, bending the allocation needs and the implications of

life history. Then on epigenesis and rearing environments are epigenesis in human

reproduction and expectable environments of rearing. While on the implications for research
and policy, they discussed other areas of human developmental ecology may be more

vulnerable, particularly (1) emotion and arousal regulation, particularly in affiliation, anxiety,

violence and aggression, and tolerance of novelty and threat; (2) modes of learning; (3)

capacities for behavior change; (4) risk for psychopathology, particularly depression, suicide,

and substance use; and (5) health and mortality risk associated with metabolic and eating

dysregulation (diabetes, obesity), bio reproductive morbidities (polycystic ovarian disease,

breast cancer), and hyperarousal and vigilance.

The whole article is very useful to those who really want to know more about human

reproduction. It can be an element to make you more knowledgeable on the theories

concerning procreation.