evolutionary expo of aggression

Question 1

survival of the fittest

Answer 1

means that organisms who are suited to their environment will survive in order to reproduce e.g. the fittest genes, like those involving aggression, were passed on to aid human survival
* It is the combination between the genotype and environment that lead to the phenotype which is what is passed on through time to subsequent generations.

Question 2

6 Evolutionary reasons humans are aggressive:

Answer 2

• Aggression could be an evolved solution to adaptive problems so individuals act aggressively to protect themselves.
• Fighting is an evolved strategy to assert dominance on a rival.
• Aggression is useful because it deters our partners from infidelity and can scare rivals away to ensure children below to the aggressor
• Aggression has evolved to increase status against competing males to make the aggressor more attractive to the female.
• Appropriating resources like hunting, to provide food for others so they have a survival advantage.
• Aggressive behaviour may be due to inheritance of an aggressive gene combined with situational factors such as abusive upbringing.

Question 3

Dobash and Dobash (1979)

Answer 3

)who found that violence against woman often came about through jealousy, which is an aggressive trait that could lead to gene survival. This provides some evidence that evolution and inheritance of aggression promoting genes might provide
a credible explanation of aggression.

Question 4

Mazur (1983)

Answer 4

Males show an increase in fighting behaviours around puberty because of an increased focus on attracting mates. This provides some evidence that evolution and inheritance of aggression promoting genes might provide a credible explanation of aggression.