PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Major Histocompatibility Complex, Evolutionary Anthropology, Proximate And Ultimate Causation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3F03
• Professor: Paul W Andrews

Document Summary

3f03- evolution and human behaviour is an interdisciplinary field: human behaviour in light of evolutionary theory, evolution and human behaviour is an interdisciplinary field, the course will cover ideas and research findings from psychology, biology, and anthropology. It is biological: looking at human behaviour within the conceptual framework that unites the life sciences: evolution by selection, natural selection, sexual selection, adaptation, cross-species comparison, darwinian fitness (adaptations are for reproduction) Evolutionary psychology: psychological science considering that the brain is an evolved product of the evolutionary process. Evolutionary psychology: mid to late 80s due consideration of the mind/ studies of the brain can be studied with evolutionary biology evolved behaviours. Adaptationism: investigating the components of organisms in the light of hypotheses about their adaptive functions. Adaptationism: by using the logic of natural selection, adaptationism generates interesting predictions about behaviour and cognition that are not otherwise possible, gives insight into proximate mechanisms (these are the products of selection, neurobiology, physiological time.