PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Orb-Weaver Spider, Gemstone, Sexual Coercion
3 Nov 2015
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One must run as fast as possible to stay in the same place . Sexual reproduction is our way of staying ahead of parasites that are attacking us. As with sexual selection, red queen hypothesis had a lot of traction within evolutionary cognition theories. Social cognition - one answer to how it evolved is that it was good for something like developed high social cognitive skills important hunting and communicating. But there is a chance it is for something else: ex. competing with conspeci cs. We are running very hard to keep up with other members of our species who have. If it is important for an animal to live in a community and cooperate, communication is. One view is language is on a continuum - from very speci c signals (ex. monkeys have three signals for various types of danger) to human language.
