PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Inclusive Fitness, Evolutionary Psychology, Trait Theory
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Evolutionary psychology is a new and rapidly growing scientific perspective, and it offers important insights into human personality. Key aspects: human nature, sex differences, and individual differences. Natural selection (aka survival selection) / - charles robert darwin. The process by which adaptations are created and change takes place over time. Species seemed to produce many more offspring than could possibly survive and reproduce. Changes, or variants, that better enabled an organism to survive and reproduce would lead to more descendants. The descendants would inherit the variants that led to their ancestors" survival and reproduction. Through this process, over time, these successful variants come to characterize the entire species; unsuccessful variants decrease in frequency and vanish from the species. Focus on the event that impede survival hostile forces of nature. Hostile forces such as food shortage, diseases, parasites, predators, extremes of weather .
