Psychology 3724F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cortisol, Libido, Kinnaur District
26 Mar 2016
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Point is to figure out how the different components and approaches should be integrated and understand in terms of causal processes involved. All the factors that make up distal-proximal dimension must be presented at proximal level in our minds/brains and bodies: otherwise hard to see how they could exert any influence on partners or relationships. Existence of polyandrous marriages poses special problem for evolutionary approaches because seem to be nothing in it for males in terms of reproductive success. Theo dobzhansky once said nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution : if few replace biology with intimate relationships, the quotation remainds valid. Only ape that has similar mating arrangements to humans is gibbon more distantly related to humans than great apes. None other apes including gibbons resemble this complex pattern. Development of cerebral frontal cortex facilitated ability to use language, learn quickly and easily, plan into future. Human nature is subtly different for men and women.
