BIOL 174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trait Theory, Repeatability, Heritability
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Individual variation is important to study and becoming reemphasized. Genetic variants correlate with diseases and physiological conditions. its coming into medicine. Tryon tales for four main problems that should be addressed when thinking about indiv. variation. Broad definition of personality, and repeatable behavior can be termed as a personality trait. and in narrow sense definitio of personality they made 5 major axises for non human animals. We can add to tryon on how indiv variation correlate with darwininan fitness in nature. because indiv varian is the raw material on which selection acts. if it does, there is selection acting on that level. So we are gonna go through how to study and quantify indiv. variation. you need studies of repeatability. There is a lot of variation. so you cant be measured once, you need to be measured repeatedly. 1. extreme values are abnormal and do not reflect the true response of most individuals.
