A01 evolutionary explanations of food preferences

Question 1

Adaptive functions of a particular behaviour

Answer 1

Just saying

Question 2

What are the 4 sections

Answer 2

The environment of evolutionary adaptation

Early diets

Preference for meat

Taste aversion

Question 3

Talk about the environment of evolutionary adaptation

Answer 3

The environment in which human beings first emerged as a separate species
Natural selections favoured adaptations tgat promotes survival in eea

Question 4

Talk about early diets

Answer 4

Early diets of humans indicate that fatty foods were adaptive for energy
Also so an evolved preference for food rich in calories

Question 5

Tall about preference of meat

Answer 5

Fossil evidence suggests early diet mainly consisted of animal based food
This is because it’s unlikely that early humans had enough energy from meat free diet cz of how much they did

Question 6

What are the 3 sections for taste aversion

Answer 6

Bait shyness or taste aversion

The adaptive advantages of taste aversion

The the medicine effect

Question 7

Talk about taste aversion Who tested it

Answer 7

García

Question 8

What did garcía do and find

Answer 8

Found rats that’s became I’ll cz of radiation after eating saccharin developed an aversion to it as oscillation.

Question 9

Talk about the adaptive advantages of taste aversion

Answer 9

The development of taste aversions helped ancestors to survive cz they’re difficult to shift once learned

Question 10

Talk about medicine effects

Answer 10

Animals learn preference for food that makes them healthier

Question 11

Who tested medicine effect

Answer 11

García
Found that thiamine deficient rats were presented a flavour for it then injected with thiamine. They learned to associate favour with thiamine