BIOS10119 Midterm: Red Queen Ch 1 Outline

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Biology red queen outline (ch1 to ch3) Human nature: 3 human nature is predictable just as the human stomach. We all know what is love, pain, envy, etc regardless of our environment: 1930: papua new guinea indigenous tribe: the natives smiled and frowned just as any anthropological society. The tribe and the western culture were 10,000 years apart since they last shared an ancestor. Culture shock: culture came from our nature >>>>> therefore, human beings share peculiarities. Sex = reproduction >>>>>>>> sole purpose for which humans are designed. We all have the inherited tendency to reproduce. No one inherits sterility, because those who are sterile do(cid:374)"t pass o(cid:374) their ge(cid:374)es. Competitive reproduction: all we do is to increase the chances to reproduce p. 5 (cid:862)those strains that reproduce, per i t. Those that do not, die out. (cid:863: 5 free will: ability to take initiatives.