BIOC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biproduct, Richard Lewontin, Behavioural Genetics
20 Apr 2019
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Syn: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, behaviour are overt actions. Anthropology and sociology understands genetics in the social context: controversies how much genes related to iq, mental disorders, sexual orientation, aggression, looked at race/ ethnicity in relation to behaviour. He was quoted as saying black people are less intelligent than other races. Said iq of african american are not the same as caucasian societies: one of reasons for less females in certain work fields, was due to biological differences. Employee at google lost his job because he tried to say people are not taking in that there is genetic differences that explains why 83% of employees are males. It is possible that selection is drawn on a specifc gene for the specifc phenotype, but not always the case: spandrel: physical arch, support structure for a building. In biology, there are phenotype that are produced as a bi-product of other genes.
