PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Casual Sex, Selective Breeding, Human Genome

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Selecting specimens that possess a desireable trait and breeding them with other like members. Generations later, a population will produce an abundant trait. Me(cid:272)ha(cid:374)is(cid:373) for e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge(cid:895) i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h those (cid:862)fit(cid:863) for a(cid:374) e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al or (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal traits) live and pass on their genes. Caused by: competition for resources, variation in genes, certain variation in genes are better suited to the environment, those with better genes pas them on, thus creating more viable offspring. The moral compass: humans naturally have aversions to kill a person using their hands. This draws back to a long time ago when social humans were advantageous. We all have the same emotions, logic, moral intuitions etc. Most genetic variations happen within groups rather than between groups: kenyan closer genes to icelander than icelander to icelander, 95% of variation exists within groups, 5% between groups. Reproductive behavior: everything between men and woman are the same except for reproduction.