BIO318Y5 Lecture Notes - Extra-Pair Copulation, Sperm Competition, Homo Sapiens

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7 Apr 2014
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First key points from last lecture about misunderstandings: evidence of recent adaptation in humans, understanding human behavioural adaptations are not lessons for how we ought to behave: Genes vs. environment (crossed out: sry carried by about half of all humans. Sry: males does not equal murder, females could be murderer or murder victims as well. However: sry induced developmental switch has long lasting and often broadly predictable effects on our biology . There are two fields of study: evolutionary psychology and human behavioural ecology: evolutionary psychology tends to focus on universal traits and focuses on the. Environment of evolutionary adaptedness : evolutionary psychology assesses adaptation using trait design, hypotheses lead to specific & novel predications about design features that are amenable to testing, reverse engineering, matching the environment, mimicry and adaptation to environment, ex. When talking about heart function, you"re talking about heart fitness: coming up with hypotheses that no other field has thought about.