PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Choosing Wisely, Physical Attractiveness, Facial Symmetry
23 Mar 2016
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Choosing good genes is metaphorical: homo saps have been choosing good genes, without even knowing what genes are for epochs, non-human animals choose good genes without knowing anything explicit, to say nothing of knowing what genes are. Why talk about genes in this context: because genes are replicable in the next generaion; dawkins" replicator. My daughter has blue eyes because of my genes + her mother"s genes. If there was no method of biological inheritance, would she: just keep in mind that things other than genes are replicated/inherited as well. My mother, i, my daughter inherited the muliplicaion imes-tables which were. There is no explicit sense in which we are choosing genes. We may not even know that it is symmetry or whr that we like (we do know she/he smells good) The evoluionary psychology of mate choice assumes, reasonably. There will be a prety direct payof for choosing good mates.
