ANT331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inclusive Fitness, Mate Choice, Consilience
Document Summary
Behaviour that are seen in the animal kingdom are also seen in ourselves through evolution: evolutionary precursors to help us adapt to our environment. By placing us with the realm of animal kingdom, we can scientifically analyze human behaviour. The idea that those who inherit characteristics that are well adaptive to specific environment will have more offspring, will be more reproductively successful: optimizing reproductive success lies in the heart of darwin sexual selection. Importance: puts humans in the fabric of nature, applies human behaviours to the laws of science. Integrates the environmental and developmental influences into an examination of human behaviour. An attempt to integrate all fields of science in the explanation of a phenomenon. Use scientific understanding to explain human behaviours: mate choice, sexual arousal, competition for mates, sexual preferences. Modern evolutionary approach to human behaviour: sociobiology - focuses all behaviour of organisms*
