PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Menstrual Cycle, Natural Selection, The Selfish Gene
20 Sep 2017
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Thinking that one gene carries a particular behavioural such as. Getting gene for alcoholism means you are a alcoholic. In stat. scene, the gene is probabilistically associated with a. Having one particular variant gene, tends to be associated with a. When measured across a population, there is a nonzero somewhat different outcome on this characteristic correlation between variation on the gene and the outcome on characteristic. 3 different way to say it characteristic. R = 0. 08 between risk-taking and variant of drd4 gene. It is genetically-controlled differences that matter in evolution. Yellow more likely to survive because it has a slight chances of. Variant of gene make people dumb, still more likely to reproduce producing more offsprings. What effect would this characteristics have on our ancestors. What specific genetically-based psychological tendencies were likely to have made a gene more popular under ecological circumstances that characterized ancestral populations. Psychological mechanism that allow yous to be sensitive and.
