LIFESCI 15 Study Guide - Final Guide: Myelin, I Feel Sick, Cuckold
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Making progress towards our goals makes us happy, absolute levels have very little effect on our happiness. Once we reach our goal, our happiness does not last long. The example with the lottery winner, and with the same happiness. -people from undeveloped countries find happiness in acquiring basic items from more civilized countries, since they are getting something not present in their environment; they are progressing. There are ideas, customs, etc that are not passed through biology(genes), so these ideas can be passed from people to different people through our culture. Someone else"s idea save you from your way of doing something. Genetic info can only be passed from generation to generation, parent to offspring. But culture allows us to pass info to anyone. For example, you don"t have to know how to create a lightbulb/shoe, but there are people in our society who can create it for you.
