BIOLOGY 1M03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Observational Learning, Lactase, Fetus

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Chapter 15 + 16 evolution and human behaviour + human mate choices and parenting. Human behaviour, its nature and nurture, not nature or nurture. Brain impacts behaviour, natural selection shapes brain size and abilities. Natural selection can also shape brain behaviour, ex: rat diet. >evolution and culture animals, besides humans, have tools as well social facilitation: right place, right time to learn observational learning: imitating what one observes social facilitation in monkeys observational learning in apes and humans. >relatives: we know our relatives to avoid inbreeding, and to help them, kin selection and altruism how : phenotype matching, spatial distribution (where they live), association (familiarity early in development) and recognition alleles. Inbreeding avoidance: many diseases are homozygous recessive, many primates leave natal group when reaching sexual maturity inbreeding reduces fitness humans: westermarck effect-> adults not attracted to those they grew up with.

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