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Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 13 facts
claimBehavioral genetics is the field of study that focuses on the proximate influence of genes on behavior.
claimCognition is functionally structured and has evolved through natural selection because it has a genetic foundation.
claimDual inheritance theory posits that genes and human culture interact, with genes affecting the development of culture and culture affecting human evolution on a genetic level, similar to the Baldwin effect.
claimInclusive fitness theory posits that genes can increase the replication of copies of themselves by influencing an organism's social traits to assist the survival and reproduction of close relatives who carry identical copies of those genes.
claimW. D. Hamilton proved mathematically in 1964 that because close relatives share identical genes, natural selection can favor organisms that promote the reproduction and survival of related or similar individuals, thereby maximizing their inclusive fitness.
claimEvolutionary psychologists view the human psyche and physiology as genetic products, assuming that genes contain the information for the development and control of the organism and that this information is transmitted across generations.
claimMen generally find sexual infidelity more aversive than emotional infidelity because investing resources in another man's offspring does not lead to the propagation of their own genes.
claimEvolutionary psychologists consider the environment to be an activator or trigger for the developmental instructions encoded in genes, rather than a primary driver of development.
claimBehavioral genetics and its variants, including molecular-level studies of the relationship between genes, neurotransmitters, and behavior, focus on establishing the relative influence of genetics and environment on behavior.
claimSickle cell disease is a side effect of genes that impart malaria resistance, where the homozygous form of the gene causes the disease.
claimSexual selection plays a significant role in human evolution because sexual reproduction is the mechanism for propagating genes into future generations.
claimCritics often characterize evolutionary psychology as a form of genetic reductionism and genetic determinism, arguing that the field fails to address the complexity of individual development and experience or explain the influence of genes on behavior in individual cases.
claimEngaging in multiple sexual relationships can provide benefits to women, such as fertility insurance, trading up to better genes, reducing the risk of inbreeding, and insurance protection for offspring.
Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 8 facts
referenceWilliam Durham published Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity in 1991.
claimNatural selection cannot select for behavior directly because behavior is not transmitted between generations; it can only select for the genes that code for the proximal cognitive mechanisms that produce behavior.
claimGenes influence cultural evolution by establishing psychological predispositions that bias what individuals are able to learn, teach, or imitate.
quoteJohn Tooby and Leda Cosmides stated in 1992 that "every feature of every phenotype is fully and equally codetermined by the interaction of the organism’s genes … and its ontogenetic environments."
claimCritics of memetics, such as Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, argue that memes are unlikely to be sufficiently similar to genes to warrant the claim that cultural evolution is analogous to biological evolution.
claimGenetic determinism is false because phenotypes are codetermined by the interaction of an organism's genes and its ontogenetic environments.
referenceCharles Lumsden and Edward Wilson published 'Genes, Minds, and Culture' in 1981, discussing the co-evolution of genes and culture.
claimA comprehensive evolutionary approach to culture must investigate how genes influence cultural habits and how culture generates natural selection pressures that guide biological evolution.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 4 facts
claimDavid Chalmers contrasts the conceivability of a world without consciousness with worlds without life, genes, or water, noting that the latter are not remotely conceivable.
claimTaking a concept as primitive provides a weaker explanatory connection than reductive explanation, such as the explanation of genes in terms of DNA, but it remains a valid form of explanation.
claimThe facts about genes are derived from the facts about the structure and function of DNA, meaning there is an a priori implication from physical facts about DNA to facts about genes.
claimIn cases such as genes and water, the implication from micro-level facts to macro-level facts is a priori, meaning one only needs a grasp of the meaning of the concepts to derive the facts.
Plant Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture - iBiology ibiology.org 2 facts
claimPlants cope with phosphorous deprivation by regulating genes involved in the breakdown of phospholipids and by modifying root architecture to allow for more efficient uptake of orthophosphate.
claimMembers of Luis Herrera-Estrella’s lab engineered maize to utilize phosphite by introducing genes from the bacteria Pseudomonas stutzeri.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimStabilization mechanisms, which preserve individual organisms, and variation-generating processes, which promote species evolution, have evolved within the domain of cell biochemistry and genes for over three billion years.
claimGenes are considered the most important arena of evolutionary processes.
Evolutionary Eating — What We Can Learn From Our Primitive Past todaysdietitian.com Apr 1, 2009 2 facts
quoteMarlene Zuk stated: “Different genes change at different rates. We share a lot of genes with carnations and sea anemones and lots of other animals; there’s many genes that we have in common with Drosophila [fruit flies]. But nobody’s suggesting we should eat what flies eat, even though we have genes in common with flies.”
quoteMarlene Zuk stated: “You can suggest that there are a lot of similarities in all animals, and so we’re likely to have more genes in common with our more recent ancestors than with our more distant ancestors. But that doesn’t mean that for any given gene, they’ve all changed or they all haven’t changed.”
Industry-Based Misconceptions Regarding Cross-Pollination of ... frontiersin.org Jan 25, 2022 1 fact
claimLandi et al. (2019) reported that abiotic stressors, including nitrogen nutrition, water stress, and salinity, cause the up-regulation and down-regulation of multiple genes in plants, resulting in altered secondary metabolite production.
The role of light in regulating plant growth, development and sugar ... frontiersin.org Jan 6, 2025 1 fact
claimChen et al. (2022) performed a transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of quality changes during sweet cherry fruit development and identified related genes.
Pharmacological Uses of New Bioactive Compounds from Medicinal ... academia.edu 1 fact
referenceDemirer and Landry (2017) published an article on methods for delivering genes to plants.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceLabeling of epigenetic or transcription factors related to the expression of genes necessary for synaptic plasticity is indicative of extinction and reconsolidation processes, as reported by Sweatt (2009).
Western pattern diet - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceFrank B. Hu (2011) examined the globalization of diabetes, specifically the role of diet, lifestyle, and genes.
Bridging the Gap Between LLMs and Evolving Medical Knowledge arxiv.org Jun 29, 2025 1 fact
referenceDelatycki and Allen published the paper titled 'Population Screening for HH' in the journal Genes in 2024.
Combining novel technologies with interdisciplinary basic research ... onlinelibrary.wiley.com Oct 26, 2021 1 fact
claimStudies based on multi-omics can reveal the changes of key metabolites and genes in plants to understand how plants resist diseases and insect pests.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceO'Brien and Laland (2012) published 'Genes, culture and agriculture: an example of human niche construction' in Current Anthropology, discussing the interaction between genes, culture, and agriculture.