PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Symmetry In Biology, Hox Gene, Wedding Ring
6 Dec 2016
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What do people say they want in their mates. Following up on galton"s idea, ben jones created a technique for averaging health in faces, or transforming (healthy unhealthy and vv) Women rated full face images on attractiveness, and cheek patch on healthiness. Patch of skin able to predict how healthy whole face look. These code for proteins in body that recognize self vs non-self. More genes in the complex, more proteins can recognize more antigens. More diverse mhc correlates with skin type. More diverse hls, more attractive and healthy people faces. People in general prefer opposite hla, so kids will have more genes (be hetero) People prefer increased redness, had people eat carrots, became more attractive. Radial: of circles, more perfect spiral mollusk shell has, the more these animals can express genes amidst env stress. Harshness: lower symmetry, more environmentally stable organism was, lower number of f. a means genes were able to resist env.
