ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Steroid, Ontogeny, Egg Cell
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Importance of ontogeny: life history strategy is a developmental chronology, sociobiologists cannot ignore analyses of the learning process, evolution must be understood as a modification of developmental processes over generations, must defuse the nature vs nurture controversy. Looking at the developmental stages through the life of an individual. Looking at diff life stages and why a behaviour occurs due to those stages. Ontogeny plays an important part in the adaptive explanation of a behaviour in terms of life history strategies. Interplay of environment with genetic influences is key to ontogeny. Allocation of energy and resources during diff stages of life. The learning process that is crossed down through an across cultures is important. Really refutes the nature vs. nurture debate. It is not a dichotomy: they interplay together to influence your development, this plays a key role for the development of ontogeny.
