Introduction

Question 1

What is evolutionary theory?

Answer 1

All organisms are products of lengthy
processes of modification generally from
simple to more complex forms

Question 2

Adaptations

Answer 2

Modifications that help an organism survive and reproduce

Question 3

Human behavioural ecology

Answer 3

Focus on present adaptive responses to
current environment (no claims about
evolutionary history, but leads to them)

Question 4

Gene-culture co-evolution

Answer 4

Social learning and adaptations for social
learning play important and unrecognized
roles in evolutionary processes

Question 5

Evolutionary psychology

Answer 5

Our basic psychology is a set of
adaptations to hunter-gatherer life some
750,000 to maybe 100,000 years ago