PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ontogeny, Parental Investment, False Dilemma

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

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This is an incorrect way of asking this question because the answer is - both is correct. Refer to the example above - same idea. Motivations will evolve which is statistically associated with reproductive success: tinbergen"s four questions (a. k. a. Are divided into two cases - proximate and ultimate causes: Developmental processes: how does that mechanism develop within individual lifetime: whatever that mechanism is - how did it develop (aka ontogeny, development can change and alter the mechanism/the brain. Why would it exist at all: why would any organism do that behaviour, social success and reproductive success. What did it evolve from: evolutionary history/evolutionary past, when did this trait evolve and why did it evolve. Our brain is continuously changing - that is learning, if your brain doesn"t change it means you are not learning. These levels of analysis are complementary, not mutually exclusive.