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Evolutionary Psychiatry Flashcards

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Natural Selection

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The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype

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Fitness

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How successful an organism is at reproducing

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Sexual selection

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Competition for mates

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Tinbergen’s questions

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1) Mechanism (how does behaviour occur?)

2) Development (how does behaviour arise?)

3) Evolution (how does behaviour arise in species?)

4) Adaptive value (why is behaviour adaptive for species?)

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What is mismatch?

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Exposure to evolutionarily mismatched or novel environment eg culture, alcohol, drugs and diet

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