ANTH 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Agnosticism, Fetus, Binge Drinking
15 Dec 2016
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Anth 3470 15/03/16 lecture 8: chimpanzee politics part 2. Evolved morality continuity with other primates: empathy and consolation, prosocial tendencies, reciprocity and fairness. Moral behaviour in primates: ted talk frans de waal. Bottom-up approach: the basic building blocks of morality can be traced back to primate evolutionary history. Produces nasty/selfish individuals: only romantics with flowers in their hair would think otherwise. The beethoven error aka evaluating his music based on how dirty his apartment was. You can"t focus on the process of evolution, but on the product. Manifestations of dominance: formal dominance (who bows to who), social influence/power (those not at the top of the ladder, but still hold power) The ends justify the means: machiavellian power politics luit was killed, his testicles ripped off. Boys will be boys there is a huge over representation of fatal accidents among young males related to a pattern of poor motor and cognitive regulation in developing male misjudgment of risk evolutionary context.
