Role Of Evolution And Natural Selection

Question 1

What is evolution?

Answer 1

How inherited characteristics in organisms change from generation to generation

Question 2

What is darwins theory of natural selection?

Answer 2

The process in which organisms better adapted to their environment are healthier, live longer and reproduce more frequently

Question 3

What is genetic mutation?

Answer 3

Refers to a permanent change in the gene sequence which can come, for example from a virus or damage due to radiation

Question 4

What is the brain an organ of?

Answer 4

Behaviour

Question 5

How is the brain built?

Answer 5

According to a genetic blue print we inherit from our parents

Question 6

The structure and function of our brains have evolved to…

Answer 6

Serve an adaptive function in the environment of evolutionary adaptation (EEA)

Question 7

Which males had an adaptive advantage

Answer 7

Males that were naturally more aggressive when their offspring and resources were threatened

Question 8

Jealousy and resulting aggression can be seen as…

Answer 8

A survival trait

Question 9

Reductionist? ROLE OF EVOLUTION

Answer 9

Reduces behaviour to genes that guide it, focus can be on individuals genotype

Question 10

Opposing theory? ROLE OF EVOLUTION

Answer 10

Dollard et al- suggest that aggression in humans comes from frustration from environmental influences