PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Natural Selection, Advantageous, Blue-Collar Worker
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Darwin & lumrak: adapting the body to be more effective. Significant changes over time: evolution change. Very slow process: what is attractive or adaptive replicates over time. Sexual selection: genes are repeated with accuracy but not ideas has to do with how accurate the information is spread as well. Cultural evolution: replication of ideas not so much natural or sexual selection. Useful ideas spread: ppl want to be useful. If you provide efficiency for the group it makes you valuable. If ppl share some sort of experience it helps improve the bonding. When he regained consciousness the man found himself laying in a hotel bathroom covered with ice, phone placed on the floor beside the tub with an attached note that said, call 911 or you will die. Police department never received report of harvesting but many have passed the legend on, and inspired a law and order episode. Seems like it could happen, and emotion is attached to that.
