1. The Biology of Love * *Please note. This discussion in no way attempts to discuss love in a religious context. Rather it is merely an entertaining way to learn about the sometimes comical world of biological reproduction. By Miss Baker missbakersbiologyclass.com

2. If not for sex[ual reproduction], much of what is flamboyant and beautiful in nature would not exist. –Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation

3. Why Sex?

4. A sexual organism has only 50% of the fitness of an asexual organism.

5. You Have to Find and Woo a Mate

6. You Have to Fight to Win Their Love

7. You'll Be More Conspicuous to Predators

8. Sex Increases Risk of Diseases That Lead to Sickness Infertility Death

9. So, Why Sex?

10. Red Queen The Red Queen Hypothesis

12. What?? A speices must continually adapt its genes just to maintain an advantage over its predators/parasites!

13. Lucky in Love Sex is like the best strategy for winning the lottery

14. Greater Success Increasing Variety =

15. The Difference Between Males and Females

16. Between 1725-1765, the Wife of Feodor Vassiyev had 69 Children In Her 27 Pregnancies She Gave Birth to 16 Pairs of Twins 7 Sets of Triplets 4 Sets of Quadruplets

17. 1,042 Children

18. Love is Like a Game of Chess It's All About Strategy

19. Base Your Decisions on the Environment in Which You Live Make the Choice That Will Lead to the Greatest Number of Successful Offspring!

20. Monogamy... My Heart Beats Only For You

21. Polygamy... I Love You and You and You and You and

22. MonogamyPolygamy Less disease riskMore diversity in offspring Can mate guardProduce more offspring Lower infanticideLess commitment Form social bonds Less male competition

23. How Many Offspring Should You Have?

24. If You Decide to Have Few...

25. You Must Provide Parental Care

26. If You Decide to Have Many... You Won't Have to Provide Parental Care

27. That You'll Die Soon Afterwards But, You'll Probably Be So Exhausted

28. Are You a Desperate Male?

29. Commit Sexual Suicide It's Better to Have Loved and Lost Then to Have Never Loved at All!

30. Or Allow Yourself to Be Exploited And Persist as a Tiny Blood-Sucking Parasite Attached to the Female's Body

31. What if a Member of the Opposite Sex is Not Available? Get a Sex Change!

32. But, What if You're Alone?

33. Shy?

34. Rejected?

35. Unable to find a mate?

36. All is Not Lost

38. Go Asexual But, Remember You Lose the Benefits of Sex So Switch Back When Possible

39. Arguably the Most Exquisitely Evolved Mating Behaviors Belong to Class Aves

40. The Greatest Human Mating Behavior of All Time And Now for the Finale Drumroll Please

42. The End

43. Photo Credits Slide #PhotographerURL 3Unknownhttp://www.scienceagogo.com/news/img/sperm_egg_1is.jpg 4Michael Reeve http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Evolsex-dia1a.png 5Arthur Morris http://www.birdsasart.com/Royal-terns-courtship-feeding-DeSoto-FL-_H2D8575.jpg 6Unknown http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3290720.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=C06051C8BA2A5 A2C4196C3EDFEC0E7E6A55A1E4F32AD3138 7Billy Campbell http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/81/22/0000038122_20070301141540.jpg 8Lampronhttp://www.health2know.com/images/herpes.jpg 9Unknownhttp://www.scienceagogo.com/news/img/sperm_egg_1is.jpg 10Unknown http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/disney-movie/alice-with-queen-of-hearts.jpg 11John Tenniel http://www.proteusadvisors.com/uploaded_images/Red-Queen-733514.jpg 12Unknown http://bp3.blogger.com/_92E8fZ0HCXg/Rx5CWQhSyxI/AAAAAAAABJQ/t-P_NSFEcyo/s1600-h/lottery+balls.jpg 13Unknownhttp://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/05/dpuzzle_640.gi f 14Steven Rhoads http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/society_culture/assets/sex_differences.jpg 15Can you identify?Found on Creative Commons Flickr Search 16Unknownhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Moulay_Ismail.jpg 17PoppyWhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/poppyw/348928452/ 18Can you identify?Found on Creative Commons Flickr Search 19WTLhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wtlphotos/1045750850/ 20M. Boylen http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Callorhinus_ursinus_and_harem.j pg/300px-Callorhinus_ursinus_and_harem.jpg

44. Slide #PhotographerURL 21 alb 21 lion James Preston Brian Scott http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamespreston/88920149/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianscott/283824665/ 22Can you identify?Found on Creative Commons Flickr Search 23 Martha de Jong-Lantink http://www.flickr.com/photos/marthaenpiet/2093911204/ 24Can you identify?Found on Creative Commons Flickr Search 25Unknown http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/BPANews/Library/images/fish/Chinook_eggs.jpg 26Anvihttp://www.anvious.com/archive/photoblog/061026.jpg 27Can you identify?Found on Creative Commons Flickr Search 28TarynMariehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/tarynmarie/233251372/ 29T.W. Pietsch http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/news/images/20050129-photocorynus_spiniceps-male_female.jpg 30Kawa0310http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_road_ahead/130768000/ 31tlindenbaumhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lindenbaum/360684002/ 32ucumarihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/580865728/ 33Jill Greenberg http://photomediamagazineonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/JG-monkeysuitff.jpg 34Arnar Valdimarssonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/arnar/95116503/ 35Mike Kemp http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/96/47/23494796.jpg 36Unknown http://www.rivalryrecords.com/BAND_LOGOS/logo_GoItAlone_LP.jpg 37Tim Knight http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/reptile/komodo_dragon/komodo_dragon_04tfk.jpg 38Sailing Nomadhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanwhisner/363966960/ 40Unknown http://www.moviewallpapers.net/images/wallpapers/1977/saturday-night- fever/saturday-night-fever-1-1024.jpg 41ucumarihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/427035041/