PSYC 2034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intellectual Disability, Surrogacy, Cystic Fibrosis
22 Jan 2018
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Individuals best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce. Their characteristics are passed on to next generation. Over generations, organisms with characteristics best suited for survival make up large portion of population. Emphasizes adaptation, reproduction, and survival of fittest in shaping behavior. Evolution explains human physical features and behaviors. Evolved characteristics are not always adaptive and contemporary. Natural selection operates primarily on characteristics tied to reproductive fitness: only through first half of life. Natural selection and adaptive behavior: darwin and survival of fittest, social darwinism, naziism, apartheid, abortion of genetically defective, sociobiology. Idea that partly your biology contributes to construction of society: konrad lorenz, on aggression . Innate behaviors: certain stimuli presented in specific periods of development which can trigger certain behaviors, lamarckian theory, pass on genetically adaptive traits quicker than evolution, pass on simply through biology, worm runners digest, case of the midwife toad. Chromosomes: threadlike structures located in nucleus.
