PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Monoamine Oxidase A, Heritability, Epigenetics
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Evolutionary psychology: the application of evolutionary principles to. Species-typical behaviors: behaviors that are characteristic of a particular animal psychological functioning species in its natural environment. Natural selection: individuals with characteristics that promote adaptation to the environment will survive, reproduce, and pass on these adaptive characteristics to their offspring. Ethology: the study of animal behavior in its natural environment. If so, how much does this influence relationships between men and. The study of genetic in uences on behavior, including interactions between genes, and interaction between genes and environment. Human characteristics are polygenic (in uenced by multiple genes simultaneously) People have two copies of each gene because we have a copy from each parent sometimes those copies are the same (homozygous) and sometimes they are different (heterozygous) Complex human characteristics, such as those studied in this class, derive from the interaction of many genes. Growing up in neglective/affectionate environment can shape child.
