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Question 1

What is natural selection and how does it contribute to evolution?

Answer 1

inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

Question 2

How does natural selection contribute to evolutionary psychology?

Answer 2

Evolutionary psychologists focus mostly what makes us so much alike as humans

Question 3

What is a mutation, and how might it affect evolution?

Answer 3

a random error in gene replication that leads to a change

Question 4

What differences between men and women do evolutionary psychologists attribute to evolution?

Answer 4

Men have higher sex drive
Women are choosier with mate selection

we are designed to prefer whatever worked for our ancestors in their environments

Question 5

What are the criticisms of evolutionary psychology?

Answer 5

Start with effect and work backward - can’t test theories

Social scripts - culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations

some traits and behaviors, such as suicide, are hard to explain in terms of natural selection

possible social effects