BIOL 3062 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Mate Choice, Niche Construction, Menopause
1 May 2017
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Was applied to humans: this is an uncomfortable aspect of it can be racist, sexist, etc, also difficult to apply to humans due to more complex and dynamic environment. Objections to human behavioural ecology than most other animals. Bird songs long history of natural selection for birds that sang that were better able to attract mates: a(cid:455)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:271)irds si(cid:374)g to attra(cid:272)t (cid:373)ates(cid:863) is (cid:373)ore si(cid:373)plisti(cid:272) Our behaviour is not genetically determined: even learned behaviours have a heritable basis, genetic set up/heritable traits set up that allow certain learning to be more effective, predisposition to learn things set up by natural selection. Treat humans like any other species: human behavioural ecology, using the approaches of behavioural ecologists. Study our evolved psychology: our brain is evolutionarily shaped, the way we perceive things, the decisions we make, can be understood from and evolutionary point of view, psychological approach to human behavioural ecology.
