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| wrestling and aggressive interactions within a species |
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| idea of trade-offs where individuals are players in a game with the goal of trying to optimize their own particular lot |
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| Can be used in order to appear more desirable to potential mate partners and to survive. For example: finding food. |
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| an idea that acts as a metaphor to different behavioral strategies regarding issues of aggression |
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| Never behaves aggressively |
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| Evolutionary based equilibria |
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| ratios of each kind of strategy where the expected average evolutionary payout for one strategy is equal to the average payout of the other |
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| most aggression between conspecifics is not designed to hurt or kill |
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| one sees something framed by someone else as natural and then indicates that is the way things should be (false beliefs that things should be a specific way) |
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| it minimizes the adverse effects like a glove does in boing |
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| starts in order to attract or gain access to females |
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| the presence of certain hormones allows males to be more aggressive than females |
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| removes the possibility of the competitors offspring competing with ones own offspring. |
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| core feature of human behavior; acquisition of territory and resources. Also to obtain livestock and virgin females. exclusively male oriented. |
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| Psychological process that makes the enemy more killable. (for ex: portraying enemy as predator or vector of disease) |
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| evolution of projectile weapons |
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| helps shape group coordination (humans can throw with speed and accuracy while primates cannot) |
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| help us understand and learn about phenomenon |
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| is done not to understand a situation but to apply it to a specific problem |
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| evolutionary informed solutions to social and environmental problems |
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| A mechanism which people use to display their qualities and feelings (used as a courtship device) |
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| Fitness-indicator model of art |
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| Asked women (Ovulating vs. non-ovulating) if they were more attractive to artists who was of low quality but made a lot of money from his art through luck OR an outstanding artists who did not make much money |
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| evolutionist (adaptive influences) |
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| social constructionist (societal influences) |
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| The idea that people behave in certain ways due to their genes |
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| non conditional strategies |
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| fully genetically determined |
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| organism modifies its strategies based on the situation they are in |
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| modify their choice in strategy based o situational factors |
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| how human societies should selectively breed people so that the relatively fit individuals can produce. (goal is to make an optimal or perfect species) |
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| inability to appreciate long spans of time |
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| rate of geological change has been stable over time |
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| Mode of natural selection in which a single phenotype is favored which causes the allele frequency to consciously shift in one direction |
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| inclusive fitness (net genetic representation in the next generation) |
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| how many offspring you produce (individual fitness) |
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| more likely to save someone who you share genes with over a stranger |
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| removing rival semen and replacing with your own |
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| how "fast" the sperm ca swim |
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| period male is incapable of achieving another erection |
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| paternal Superfecundation |
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| twins that have been fertilized by two different sperm |
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| food is readily available in unlimited quantities. causes early onset puberty |
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| Correlated with underlying differences in your reproductive potential |
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| Appearance Enhancement techniques |
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| exaggerate or mask your reproductive viability and therefore are dishonest signals |
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| Heterosexual disenchantment |
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| females discover they are out of phase with their male counterparts (occurs after being lied to or cheated on) |
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| changes in behavior that occurs as a function of experience |
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| changes in behaviors that occurs as a function of age |
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| males commit acts of sexual violence (rape) to dominate and demean and diminish females |
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| acts of violence would be seen as a means to an end |
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| higher number of babies are born at night |
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| the release stimulates an ovarian follicle so that it turns into an egg |
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| Luteinizing Hormones (LH) |
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| more pronounced release (surge) triggers the release of the mature egg after it has been created by FSH |
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| biochemical characteristics that distinguish a males semen |
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| a birthing complication that results in spontaneous abortion |
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