1.1: Interaction of Heredity and Enviroment

Enviroment

The dynamic relationship and two-way interactions between human beings and their physical surroundings.

Evolutionary Psychology

A scientific approach that studies human thought, emotion, and behavior through the lens of evolutionary biology.

Natural Selection

The evolutionary process where organisms with helpful inherited traits survive and reproduce more successfully than others, passing those advantages to their offspring.

Eugenics

The practice of attempting to improve the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding.

Heredity

The process where parents pass genetic information and physical traits down to their offspring.