PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sociobiology, Twin, Tums
Document Summary
According to this view we are born prewired or predisposed to behave socially. This proposition is old and stems from evolutionary theory: there are other propositions such as behavioral propositions. Has been many propositions: this proposition about the biology prewiring is an old proposition. Natural selection: organisms are well equipped to cope with environmental challenges to survival. Genetic endowment: biological structure we receive for this purpose. Different species have different genetic makeups according to their environmental needs. The most fit species to meet environmental challenges are the ones that will ultimately survive: for example, some animals surviving better in the city, like raccoons. Extension of evolutionary theory to social behavior. An attempt to organize the facts about the adaptive significance of social behavior in animals and, by extension, in human beings: so not only physical characteristics, psychological traits included for survival.
