CC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Coparenting, Puberty, Robert Trivers
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Natural selection: the differential survival and reproduction of organism with genetic characteristics that enable them to better utilize environmental resources. Environment of evolutionary adaptiveness: the set of conditions that existed during ancestral time sand to which the human body and brain adapted. Selfishness : acting in ways that increase the chances of your own survival and reproductive success at the cost of someone else"s, eg. Inclusive fitness : william hamilton (1964, the reproductive success of both the individual and their close genetic relatives, eg. Cooperative behaviour: robert trivers (1971, helping non-genetically related individuals will be adaptive provided the recipient returns the favour, eg. Reciprocal cooperation : an evolutionary adaptive behaviour that involves providing a non-related individual a benefit on the basis that they will return the favour and thereby increase survival and reproduction success. Cheating theory: antisocial and criminal behaviour stem from low parenting effort and high mating effort reproductive strategies favoured by some men.
