Module 11 Flashcards

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What do evolutionary psychologists do?

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Focus mostly on what makes us so alike as humans

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What is natural selection?

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The process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change through competition

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What is adaptation?

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Something’s ability to change around the environment to better suit itself for it

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What are mutations?

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Random errors in gene replication

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What is sexual overperception bias?

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One’s misperception of someone else’s friendliness as a sexual-come on

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What do Behavior geneticists do?

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Discuss why we are different

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