PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Coevolution, Collectivism, Cultural Neuroscience

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Guiding framework that the article has used: we have evolutionary processes. We have gene x culture co-evolution process. We think weare so great as a species bc we have cog processing power, which isn(cid:495)t true at all (its not our cog capacity that separates us as humans) We(cid:495)re not that impressive as we thought. What we do stand out in if our hunger for cultural learning & cultural: gorilla will outperform humans!! transmission, prepared to take info from others as soon as we are born. We are driving our own evolution thru cultural evolution. We have a neat gene-culture co-evolution that happens together. Yehuda et al. , 2016: epigenetic changes coded in sequence, examined same patterning in holocaust survivors(cid:495) children, but children showed the opposite beh patterns that they. Parents who were more prone to mood disorders/ptsd inherited from parents their children had a resilience toward this. Genes underlying the cultural self mood disorders, anxiety, depression ect.

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