PSYC 3280- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Try to supress our human desire to anthromophize. Try to assess where claims are coming from. Who pays for the content money=red flags. Altruism helping others at a cost to oneself. Colonies have hundreds and thousands of individuals. One individual in the colony reproduces the queen. Foragers find food, workers maintain, warriors defend. Share food, help raise queens offspring, defend colony with their lives. Wouldn"t the gene for mooching take over. They go out collect food and eat it and then feed it to their fungus. Create vents for their home acting as a air conditioner. Work together and sacrifice themselves when danger arises. Hamilton had much more knowledge of inheritance than darwin. Created a hypothesis that explained altruistic behaviour between closely related individuals. Creating a body that reproduces the gene directly isn"t the only way for a gene to copy itself.
