ANTH 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Darwinism, Ethology, Body Plan
12 Jan 2017
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Sex differences 1: evolutionary theory and sexual selection theory: studying animals. Animal model system: using animals to investigate biological principles. Animals are useful for showing us what kinds of solutions exist to the common biological problems involved in survival and reproduction. zuk, p. 11, gccp. Animal role model: we are not interested in finding a role model for human behaviour in the animal world: the naturalistic fallacy. The idea that what is natural (appears in nature) is good and/or inevitable. It is not kind, cruel, not red in tooth and claw, nor benign in its ministrations. It is utterly, absolutely impartial. (p. 15, zuk, sexual selections: what is evolution. Change in gene frequencies in a population overtime: darwin"s theory of evolution by natural selection. Individuals face environmental challenges, some individuals who is better adapted in their current environment survive and reproduce, their genes represent the next generation. Differential reproduction: the different number of offsprings individuals leave behind.
