PSYA01H3 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Notes
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Biological evolution: characteristics of a population or group of organisms over time stands as the primary explanation of the origin of life. Changes that take place in the genetic and physical. The effectiveness of behaviour in aiding organisms to adapt to. Ultimate causes: evolutionary conditions that have slowly shaped the behaviour of a species over successive generations. Proximate causes: immediate environmental events and conditions that affect behaviour. Culture: common to a particular group of people. The sum of socially transmitted knowledge, customs, and behaviour patterns. Artificial selection: to produce offspring that possess especially desirable characteristics. A procedure in which particular animals are deliberately mated. Natural selection: the consequence of the fact that, because there are physical and behavioural differences among organisms, they reproduce differentially. Within a given population, some animals the survivors will produce more offspring than will other animals. Reproductive success: to the number of viable offspring produced by other members of the same species.