PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Smoke Detector, Risk Management, Masturbation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

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Cannot control whether or not there is a predator present. Present be a cuckoo egg, there are several things that can happen: ex. Reed warbler / cuckoo: raising a cuckoo is very costly for reed warblers, if a random egg is present in a reed warbler(cid:495)s nest that might. False +(cid:495)ve the (cid:498)cuckoo(cid:499) egg wasn(cid:495)t a cuckoo. Keep the cuckoo egg thinking it was one of his own egg. Keeps egg when it is really his own egg. B: non-adaptive outcomes: by-product (side effect, ex. Tylenol take it for pain relief but side effect is liver damage: all traits have side effect, ex. Birds having light bones: benefit is to be able to fly easier but the side effect is that their bones are brittle: ex 2. If you have 2 copies of the trait: more beneficial, ex. Manipulation, evolutionary lag: organisms will do things that is not adaptive because something is wrong, ex.