PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Standard Social Science Model, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Human Mating Strategies
10 Dec 2016
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Human behavior in light of evolutionary theory. Evolution and human behavior is an interdisciplinary field. Evolution & human behaviour is an interdisciplinary field: psychology, biology, anthropology and economics are all involved. First and foremost, it"s biological: we"re going to look at human behavior within the conceptual framework that unites the life sciences evolution by: natural selection: differential reproductive success of different selection phenotypes. The driving force of evolution is promoting copies of your genes in subsequent generations. Lots of animals die after mating ie black widow (not about own survival) sexes: sexual selection: natural selection that acts differently on different. Phenotype: individual characteristics resulting from environmental interaction of an organisms genotype (eg. what is expressed) Genotype: the genetic constitution of an organism. We think what"s natural is good and that science is telling us what to do but just because it occurs naturally doesn"t make it right or a good thing. The ought/is distinction: science tells us what is.
