export_lecture 2

Question 1

Evolution of natural selection

Answer 1

• the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations .

Question 2

Biological evolution

Answer 2

replication of genes through (1) natural & (2) sexual selection

Question 3

Cultural evolution

Answer 3

replication of ideas be it (1)communicable, (2) emotional, (3)minimally counterintuitive ideas

Question 4

What are the 3 properties needed for successful evolution?

Answer 4

longevity, fecundity, fidelity

Question 5

longevity

Answer 5

being able to survive for a long time

Question 6

fecundity

Answer 6

the ability to replicate or how much is available to replicate

Question 7

fidelity

Answer 7

how much the copy is the same to the original

Question 8

Meme

Answer 8

unit/product of cultures inheritance

Question 9

Genes

Answer 9

unit/product of biological inheritance