PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Alloparenting, Parental Investment, Evolution
30 Nov 2015
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Evolution and mental illness - ep chapter 11. Gould: the organism proposes and the environment disposes - standard theory are disposed of. You get a bunch of variants and those that aren"t successful at negotiating that environment. Those that remain are the ones that have been selected for. Maladaptive and therefore decreases our tness, over the long term they will get. Reasons why we study the topics we do in evolutionary psychology for example Biological evolution: to understand the basic facts of evolutionary theory so they can be applied to psychological cases. If we want to make biological claims we have to know what biologists think. Homo"s place in evolution: to understand what is inherited (and thus shared) as well as what is distinct about humans. We want to know which traits (both behavioural and psychological) we have inherited and. Sex differences: to understand the ways in which males and females are biologically different,
