Evolutionary theory - wilson

• Evolutionary Theory by Wilson


  Draws findings of anthropology, ecology, genetics, ethology, and evolutionary psychology to explain the adaptive, or survival, value of behavior for an individual or species
• Evolutionary explanation of animal behavior could be applied to the study of human behavior
• Human nature and culture is a product of genetic evolution
• Influenced by Charles Darwin's theory, whereas the organisms vary and individual differences can be inherited
• Some organisms, because of their particular characteristics, will survive and hence reproduce at higher rates than others
• Natural Selection


  The differential survival and reproduction of different variants of members of a species and is the tool the natural world uses to shape evolutionary processes
• Ethology


  Study of the adaptive behaviors of animal species in natural contexts
• Evolutionary Psychology


  Apply Darwinian principles to human behavior
• Types of behavior


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