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The _____ combines the study of evolution by natural selection as developed by Darwin with the study of genetics as developed by Mendel.

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_____ is a measure of how much a behavioral pattern contributes to the survival of the offspring.

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_____ is a property that can be measured by considerig the reproductive success of the individual plus the effects of an individual's actions on the reproductive success of its relatives.

_____ is a built-in pattern in which the newborn of some bird species will follow an object, typically their mother, that moves in front of them during the first day or so after birth.

The historical environment in which humans experienced difficulties, found food, mated and raised children, and formed and lived with others in social groups is known as the _____.

Cosmides and Tooby's five guiding principles of evolutionary psychology do NOT contain which of the following?

Until the nineteenth century, philosophers and scientists generally viewed world and life on it as

The limited time period during which a behavior can be acquired is referred to as the _____.

Fisher put Darwin's theory of natural selection on a more scientific footing by synthesizing it with

Altruism is a particular problem for the theory of natural selection because it involves behaviors that

Ethology is the study of

Considering psychology from an evolutionary perspective helps us to understand the tight coupling between

The built-in pattern in which the newly-hatched birds of some species will follow an object that moves in front of them is known as

Data from around the world indicate that when a murder is committed, it is ____ times more likely to have been committed by a man than by a woman.

_____ is the study of animals and what they do; it involves the naturalistic observation of behavior in an organism's natural environment.

Unlike many other approaches to studying human behavior and experience, the evolutionary perspective helps us understand

Lorenz and Tinbergen experimented with the egg-rolling movement of the Greylag goose; they found that, once started, it continued even if the egg were no longer there, and they referred to this kind of movement as a _____.

Dobzhansky argued that genetic mutations along could not account for the evolution of new species; instead, what was needed was _____ that would, over time, make one population dissimilar to another related population.

According to Eibl-Eibesfeldt, adaptations reflect features of the _____ relevant to survival

The _____ not only helps us understand critical mechanisms involved in behavior and experience, it also gives us valuable perspectives on how insights into how those processes came about.