Evolutionary Explanation for Behaviour

Question 1

What is the process of Natural selection?

Answer 1

Natural selection constitutes in a process whereby organisms better adapted to their niche tend to survive and produce more progeny. According to research posited by Charles Darwin, natural selection is not a random process. Thus the genetic variation on which natural selection influences, may occur randomly.

Question 2

What is the process of Natural selection?

Answer 2

Natural selection constitutes in a process whereby organisms better adapted to their niche tend to survive and produce more progeny. According to research posited by Charles Darwin, natural selection is not a random process. However, the genetic variation on which natural selection acts, may occur randomly.

Question 3

How does natural selection influence behaviour?

Answer 3

According to evolutionary psychologists, patterns of behaviour have evolved through natural selection, in the same way that physical characteristics have evolved. Because of natural selection, adaptive behaviours, or behaviours that increase reproductive success, are kept and passed on from one generation to the next.

Question 4

What is Adaptation?

Answer 4

Adaptations are psychological and behavioral mechanisms designed through evolution to serve specific purposes ultimately related to reproductive success. Although adaptations are inherently functional, in some cases their operation can nevertheless cause personal and social dysfunction. Adaptations must benefit either an organism’s chance of survival or reproduction to be considered adaptive, and are then passed down to the next generation through this process of natural selection.

Question 5

Human Attraction (health links)

Answer 5

Individuals find other individuals attractive as a result of the latter possessing specific favoured traits. Obviously, however, attractiveness reflects traits in perceivers as well: Perceivers have traits leading them to find some features more attractive
than others. Adaptationist researchers have
typically adopted the working hypothesis that
perceiver traits are adaptations—evolved as a
result of their having benefits for perceivers—.