BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Vasopressin, Arginine, Scientific American
12 Nov 2016
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The evolutionary roots of human nature, social life and cultural norms. Sex, murder and the meaning of life/ homo mysterious/ wired for culture/ the evolution of personality and individual differences/ the rational animal/ cultural evolution and the human mind = good books. Genes and the environment interact in complex ways in explaining variation in behavior. So genes affect the way we think and behave. This explains the differences in interactions between different species and within the same species. Two views of the mind: mind determined by culture; the social science model. Some social scientists think our genetic evolution stopped roughly 30 40 000 years ago and since then it has been only culture that has shaped our way of thinking. Biology can be accredited with differences in physical characteristics (phenotypes). Ie) amount of pigmentation likely shaped in our evolutionary past by the climates we liked in and the amount of uv radiation from the sun we were exposed to.
