PSYC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: David Buss, Ontogeny, Nutation
2 Jan 2015
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Modern human came out of africa, first wen to middle east then mix with each other, became ancestor, carry with in their geno, 2. 5% of their dna from neandertals, melanesia 5% from denisova. So you can compare individuals from two species to determine genetic similarity/dissimilarity. Evoked culture is idea that a particular environment/cultural niche will activate/select (evoke) one particular genetic program over others. Transmitted culture involves learning from more expert members of a culture (conspecifics: peers, caregivers, etc. ) African zulu men nutrition stressed environment larger women is better for reproductive ability. By this, we mean the construction of a set of empirically validated, high resolution models of the evolved mechanisms that collectively constitute universal human nature over the next three or four decades, as a large scale collaborative goal by the scientific community, it may be possible to turn human nature from a vague idea into a set of precise, high resolution models of our evolved computational architecture. (pp.
