4 Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and
... altruists must be more fit than groups without altruists. These are the necessary conditions for the evolution of altruism in the elaborated model. To be sufficient, the differential fitness of groups—the force favoring the altruists—must be great enough to counter the differential fitness of indivi ...
... altruists must be more fit than groups without altruists. These are the necessary conditions for the evolution of altruism in the elaborated model. To be sufficient, the differential fitness of groups—the force favoring the altruists—must be great enough to counter the differential fitness of indivi ...
exchange
... assumes that individuals universally act rationally, by economizing to maximize their utility (i.e. profits or satisfaction) Comparative data shows that people frequently respond to other motivations than profit ...
... assumes that individuals universally act rationally, by economizing to maximize their utility (i.e. profits or satisfaction) Comparative data shows that people frequently respond to other motivations than profit ...
Intro_to_Imperialism_2013
... Natural Selection: The process in nature by which, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations while those less adapted tend to be eliminated ...
... Natural Selection: The process in nature by which, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations while those less adapted tend to be eliminated ...
Slide 1
... Population: a set of organisms that represent competing lineages, such that expansion of one lineage would lead to decline of others. Members of the same population live together (more or less) and usually can interbreed (if sexual). ...
... Population: a set of organisms that represent competing lineages, such that expansion of one lineage would lead to decline of others. Members of the same population live together (more or less) and usually can interbreed (if sexual). ...
Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions
... recognize the long-term payoffs from free-riders who enjoy the Free-riders not wanted. Those who do not contribute but benefit from the efforts of available at stable cooperative group benefits created by the others can cause the collapse of cooperation. Groups that sanction such free-riders equilib ...
... recognize the long-term payoffs from free-riders who enjoy the Free-riders not wanted. Those who do not contribute but benefit from the efforts of available at stable cooperative group benefits created by the others can cause the collapse of cooperation. Groups that sanction such free-riders equilib ...
Syllabus for IBS 593 Molecular Evolution
... Linkage disequilibrium; two-locus selection; genetic draft Nonrandom Mating Generalized Hardy-Weinberg; identity by descent; inbreeding; evolution of selfing; subdivision Quantitative Genetics Correlation between relatives; response to selection; evolutionary quantitative genetics; dominance; intens ...
... Linkage disequilibrium; two-locus selection; genetic draft Nonrandom Mating Generalized Hardy-Weinberg; identity by descent; inbreeding; evolution of selfing; subdivision Quantitative Genetics Correlation between relatives; response to selection; evolutionary quantitative genetics; dominance; intens ...
Professor Mircea Lăzărescu MD Ph.D. Popescu Anca
... requires and social roles. Histrionism is cultivated and considered a key performance in being an actor and in all social roles that require “capturing” the attention of others in order to influence (or even manipulate) them. An obsessive person’s devotion to work is cultivated by the practical prod ...
... requires and social roles. Histrionism is cultivated and considered a key performance in being an actor and in all social roles that require “capturing” the attention of others in order to influence (or even manipulate) them. An obsessive person’s devotion to work is cultivated by the practical prod ...
Towards Good Social Science - Centre for Policy Modelling
... electricity-related phenomena in a connected series of brilliant experiments showing inter alia that electricity and magnetism were closely related. However, while Faraday was able to formulate a qualitative version of the law of electromagnetic induction, he lacked the mathematical competence to pr ...
... electricity-related phenomena in a connected series of brilliant experiments showing inter alia that electricity and magnetism were closely related. However, while Faraday was able to formulate a qualitative version of the law of electromagnetic induction, he lacked the mathematical competence to pr ...
Dec. 1
... The number of ancient skulls on which he based his argument that men’s brains are now bigger than women’s because of their need for intelligence to survive and provide, was way too small. And what if women’s brains are smaller on average simply because their bodies are smaller…? And thus have the sa ...
... The number of ancient skulls on which he based his argument that men’s brains are now bigger than women’s because of their need for intelligence to survive and provide, was way too small. And what if women’s brains are smaller on average simply because their bodies are smaller…? And thus have the sa ...
Book Review: The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure.
... deterministic, with the interactions being hard-wired and always taking place in each generation. How might a probabilistic model of the evolution of social structure like that of Part III be modified to give rise to deterministic interaction structures within a reasonable (i.e., human) time-frame, ...
... deterministic, with the interactions being hard-wired and always taking place in each generation. How might a probabilistic model of the evolution of social structure like that of Part III be modified to give rise to deterministic interaction structures within a reasonable (i.e., human) time-frame, ...
FWO-project.Andreas Eng.
... outcompete the altruists, and thus destroy the cooperative system from within–unless there exists a mechanism that limits their freedom of movement. ...
... outcompete the altruists, and thus destroy the cooperative system from within–unless there exists a mechanism that limits their freedom of movement. ...
Spring Semester Exam Review
... variations for a specific trait. The organisms with the higher fitness for that trait survive and reproduce passing down that fit trait. The organisms with lower fitness for that trait die off and the trait is not passed down. OVER time, there will only be the trait that gave higher fitness because ...
... variations for a specific trait. The organisms with the higher fitness for that trait survive and reproduce passing down that fit trait. The organisms with lower fitness for that trait die off and the trait is not passed down. OVER time, there will only be the trait that gave higher fitness because ...
Darwinian Evolutionary Ethics
... that they enjoy a sufficient share of happiness, of whatever kind it may be, to render life worth living. Nature by making habit omnipotent, and its effects hereditary, has fitted the Fuegans to the climate and the productions of this miserable country (246-247). The argument is quite in keeping wit ...
... that they enjoy a sufficient share of happiness, of whatever kind it may be, to render life worth living. Nature by making habit omnipotent, and its effects hereditary, has fitted the Fuegans to the climate and the productions of this miserable country (246-247). The argument is quite in keeping wit ...
Wk 2- Ch. 1 - StudentAlumniAmbassadors
... Principles: Each system contains roles, norms, and rules that can powerfully shape development Other key terms: Microsystem; ecosystem; exosystem; macrosystem; ...
... Principles: Each system contains roles, norms, and rules that can powerfully shape development Other key terms: Microsystem; ecosystem; exosystem; macrosystem; ...
Week 4 Evolution Ideas and Evidence
... Introduced into Australia to deal with cane beetles but instead ate the local insects. They are also highly toxic. Many Australian snakes are susceptible to poisoning from these when they attack them as food The ability to eat a toad large enough for the snake to kill itself depends on the rat ...
... Introduced into Australia to deal with cane beetles but instead ate the local insects. They are also highly toxic. Many Australian snakes are susceptible to poisoning from these when they attack them as food The ability to eat a toad large enough for the snake to kill itself depends on the rat ...
Does cultural evolution need matriliny?
... parameters in killer and pilot whales appear comparable to those of humans, but from the cetacean data it is unclear what role is played by senior female kin in helping offspring to survive. It would be instructive to know more about cross-species variability in cetacean life history parameters, ena ...
... parameters in killer and pilot whales appear comparable to those of humans, but from the cetacean data it is unclear what role is played by senior female kin in helping offspring to survive. It would be instructive to know more about cross-species variability in cetacean life history parameters, ena ...
Document
... These include random variations Resources are not unlimited Some individuals will flourish more than others and produce more offspring Natural selection occurs if a population changes over generations because of this ...
... These include random variations Resources are not unlimited Some individuals will flourish more than others and produce more offspring Natural selection occurs if a population changes over generations because of this ...
What is Kinship? - ANT 152
... 6.2 Recognize how anthropologists define and study households and domestic life. 6.3 Illustrate how kinship and households are changing. ...
... 6.2 Recognize how anthropologists define and study households and domestic life. 6.3 Illustrate how kinship and households are changing. ...
Social Darwinism
... The Perfect Social State and Human Selection in Industrialized Societies In a report on research conducted in the Malay Archipelago, Wallace (1869, pp. 456-57, italics in the original) wrote: “We most of us believe that we, the higher races, have progressed and are progressing . . . [but] if we cont ...
... The Perfect Social State and Human Selection in Industrialized Societies In a report on research conducted in the Malay Archipelago, Wallace (1869, pp. 456-57, italics in the original) wrote: “We most of us believe that we, the higher races, have progressed and are progressing . . . [but] if we cont ...
What is Social Psychology? - UPM EduTrain Interactive Learning
... Psychology is the science which seeks to understand and predict human and animal behavior. Behavior includes feelings, attitudes, thoughts, and other mental process (internal events which cannot be observed directly but can be measured indirectly) ...
... Psychology is the science which seeks to understand and predict human and animal behavior. Behavior includes feelings, attitudes, thoughts, and other mental process (internal events which cannot be observed directly but can be measured indirectly) ...
Psychological Altruism
... beneficial actions in the future. This is not necessarily limited to the same species e.g. cleaner fish. If the benefit received is larger than the cost incurred, then individuals who engage in such behaviour will out-reproduce those who do not. ...
... beneficial actions in the future. This is not necessarily limited to the same species e.g. cleaner fish. If the benefit received is larger than the cost incurred, then individuals who engage in such behaviour will out-reproduce those who do not. ...
PSY 336 - Missouri State University
... As the natural world came to be quantified and measured by the mathematical method, the human body, as part of the natural world, posed special considerations. How could one measure emotions? Or quantify the soul? René Descartes provided the philosophical justification for conceptualizing the human ...
... As the natural world came to be quantified and measured by the mathematical method, the human body, as part of the natural world, posed special considerations. How could one measure emotions? Or quantify the soul? René Descartes provided the philosophical justification for conceptualizing the human ...
Boasian anthropology
... In continental Europe, anthropologists joined with folklorists and linguists to build national legends and stories –with a focus on differentiating local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a “nation” through education (eg, museu ...
... In continental Europe, anthropologists joined with folklorists and linguists to build national legends and stories –with a focus on differentiating local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a “nation” through education (eg, museu ...
Anth - UCSB Anthropology
... “Fieldwork is the central activity of anthropology. It is fieldwork, more than common theories or substantive issues, that distinguishes anthropology from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics. It is fieldwork, more than the distinctive content of the material, that produces the un ...
... “Fieldwork is the central activity of anthropology. It is fieldwork, more than common theories or substantive issues, that distinguishes anthropology from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics. It is fieldwork, more than the distinctive content of the material, that produces the un ...
Applications of Social Darwinism
... It has been said that no book, other than the Bible, has had a greater affect on society than Darwin's On the Origin of Species… One of the worst features of Darwin's evolutionary theory was that it invited not only a comparison between man and the apes, but also between the "highest" and "lowest" h ...
... It has been said that no book, other than the Bible, has had a greater affect on society than Darwin's On the Origin of Species… One of the worst features of Darwin's evolutionary theory was that it invited not only a comparison between man and the apes, but also between the "highest" and "lowest" h ...