PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Umbilical Cord, Genetic Drift, Random Effects Model
20 Oct 2017
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Existence through natural selectionb/c they aided in solving problems related to survival or reproduction (umbilical cord) By-products: characteristics that do not solve adaptive problems but are coupled to adaptations (belly button) The time and place evolution occurs to deal with a problem faced by a species. Problem of surviving surviving long enough to reproduce. Mating getting and keeping a bae long enough to pop one out. Parenting helping your kids live long enough to do the same thing in the african savannah when humans lived in small groups and were nomadic. Was it around during our last eea? characteristics, doesn"t evolve. Functionalism our behaviors must be adaptive in some way. Do sexual selection and natural selection always select the same traits? no. Adaptations inherited characteristics that came into problems of group living tasks relevant to helping out fam that aren"t your kids.
