Module 15: Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychologists

________ use natural selection to explain why womens approach to sex is usually more relational, and mens more recreational.

Humans

________ share a genetic legacy and are predisposed to behave in ways that promoted our ancestors surviving and reproducing.

Mutation

________: random error in gene replication that leads to a change.

Men

________ also have a lower threshold for perceiving warm responses as sexual come- on.

Males

________ are more likely than females to initiate sexual activity.

Charles Darwins

Uses ________ principle of natural selection to understand the roots of behavior and mental processes.

Evolutionary psychology

________: Study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using natural selection.

behavioral variations

Certain biological and ________ increase organisms reproductive and survival chances in their particular environment.

Behavior geneticists

________ explore the genetic and environment roots of human differences.

Evolutionary psychology

Study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using natural selection

Charles Darwins Idea of Natural Selection

Principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on;

Mutation

random error in gene replication that leads to a change

Our natural yearnings are our genes way of reproducing themselves

Woman pairing wisely, men by pairing widely