ANTH 410 Chapter 1: Responses for 9/30 (Rindos)
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In other words darwinian fitness is simply about whether or not reproductive success occurs and which traits that reproductive success is linked to or helps spread to a greater frequency in a population. Explain the relevance of the red queen hypothesis for understanding adaptation and fitness. In alice in wonderland the character of the red queen must run in place constantly in order for her not to move. In the context of understanding the relationship between adaptation and fitness in evolutionary theory this basically serves as a metaphor for what all species are doing all the time in order to maintain their respective ecological niches/evolutionary spaces. This is what the red queen hypothesis posits in order for us to understand adaptation and fitness: discuss the importance of variation in the application of natural selection to culture. When it comes to natural selection specifically as it relates to studying culture, variation is key in how we understand and approach it.
