PSYC 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Stone Age, Evolutionary Game Theory, Reciprocal Altruism
5 Mar 2014
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Sense & nonsense: chapter 1: darwin"s theory of evolution by natural selection, evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour frequently incite controversy, evolutionary theory is one of the most fertile, wide-ranging and inspiring of all scientific ideas. Taking the middle ground: wilson"s book provoked an uproar and launched what is now known as the. 1989 the founding meeting of the human behaviour and evolution society: any scientific field needs to evaluate its own assumptions and research methods to progress. 5 approaches to the study of human behaviour: these 5 approaches are, human sociobiology, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, gene-culture co-evolution. A guide for the bewildered: social scientist critics accuse evolutionists of ignoring cultural explanations of human behaviour, yet advocates of the meme perspective provide an evolutionary explanation that is exclusively cultural. It is not concealed ovulation among our ancestors but advertised ovulation in other species that evolved (female chimps and baboons bright red swelling around genitalia)
