WEEK 2 REVIEW QUESTIONS - EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

EXPLAIN DARWIN'S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION.
1. 3 essential components:
  1. - Variation, - Inheritance (heredity), - Evolution by natural selection (Differential reproductive success)
2. Adaptions: natural selection produces designs for reproduction.
3. Some animals reproduce, others don't.
  1. Those best suited/fit to environment leave most offspring
4. Heredity: offspring like parents.
  1. Next Generation different from current - cuz born from best breeders
    1. Natural Selection builds better & better adapted individuals through generations
WHAT IS KIN SELECTION & ALTRUISM & HOW ARE THE TWO RELATED?
1. Altruism accounted for by concept of 'selfish genes'
  1. Two selfish-gene explanations proposed:
    1. Kin selection & reciprocal altruism
2. Altruism = self-destructive behaviour performed to benefit others - long been the paradox for evolutionary psychologists.
3. 2 interrelated principles
EXPLAIN RAPE & SEXUAL ASSAULT FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE.
EXPLAIN SPOUSAL ASSAULT FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE.
EXPLAIN CHILD ABUSE FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE.
WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTEDNESS, & WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGISTS?
ACCORDING TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, WHY DO BLOOD RELATIVES KILL EACH OTHER SO RARELY?

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