PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Evolutionary Psychology, Genetic Variation, First Kid
8 Apr 2014
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We have a geneticist in the department of psychology. Human genome, heritability, etc: environment, physiology. No genes for personality they code for physical characteristics. We"ll code for differences in physiology, up to behavior. Previously, we were looking at basic tendencies and characteristic adaptations (which: for costa and mccrae, they"re peripheral component but have a big impact on contain self-concept) Human genome contains 30,000 to 40,000 genes (range varies according to sources: all located on 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chromosome: a threat of dna- we have 23 pairs, or 46 chromosomes: length varies. 1958, at age of 37, she died of ovarian cancer. Her research killed her: 1962, nobel committee decided to award nobel prize for discovery of genetic code. But they don"t award it to dead people. They gave the award to watson and crick. Human genome project video: 1) process of going from nucleotide base pairs to cell.
