PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reverse Engineering, Fetus, Opportunity Cost
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Rabbit"s coat colour only changes due to: specificity: how specific is the response (is it only produced by temperature and not to food availability, efficiency: does a response produce a favourable benefit/cost ratio. If the response causes a lot of costs then it is probably not an adaptation: ex. Or is it a side effect of something else: ex. Something that is not parsimonious saying that the rabbits coat colour change is due to sexual mating. Not the simplest explanation because the camouflage explanation is more parsimonious. In order to assess an adaptation we need to go through the 4 different criteria to see whether or not it is an adaptation: ex 2. Jealousy in relationships: high jealousy: can ruin a relationship, low jealousy: not enough competition/drive or if you don"t have jealousy (cid:523)0 jealousy(cid:524) then that means you don"t care what your mate does with anyone else, ex.