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BIOL350 COURSE CONCEPTS 2 (Module 11: Where are we headed? (Laws of…

- - - - Grand illusion #1: benefits of new technology (food production and medicine will always minimize the costs of increasing population size)
      - Grand illusion # 2: benefits of new technology in energy production, transportation, manufacturing always exceed the costs of new technology
    - - Benefit of an offspring is that it provides a higher fitness
      - Cost of having an offspring is that there is increased crowding
    - - Those with the highest fitness are always those that contribute the most causing overpopulation
  - - - Fermi paradox→ there is a lack of observational evidence in support of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, despite the size and the age of the universe suggest that many such civilizations are to exist
  - - - Humans changed their environment in ways that they are not well adapted to (ways that threaten survival and reduced reproductive success)
        
        Natural selection occurred
        
        -Some individuals left descendants while others left none
        -Resulted because these two groups had trait differences that were influenced by differences in genes
        -Natural selection responded to shape phenotypes
        -Effects of natural selection evident in most developed and prosperous societies
  - - - More equitable food distribution systems with less meat production, less consumption and obesity and less waste through social, economic and political means
      - Increased crop yields
        
        Genetically modified agriculture (biotechnology revolution)
        
        Conventional plant breeding and use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides (green revolution)
      - Reduced dependence on chemical inputs
  - - - Solutions to world hunger lie in the development of genetically modified crops with higher yields, higher nutritional values, tolerance of adverse growing conditions and resistance to pests
- - - - Women empowerment has led to a choice of a childfree life
        
        Childlessness depends on INCOME
        
        Male wealth variable = more wives
        
        Males = higher income = more kids
        
        Females = higher income = less kids
      - Parenting Drive
        
        Correlated with fitness when females are empowered and when contraception is wifely available and effective
    - - Educational goals and achievements
      - Devotion to career
        
        accumulation of financial wealth and associated power and status
      - Fame and notoriety
        
        celebrity
        
        politics
        
        Charity and philanthropy
        
        Awards and championships
        
        Fashion
        
        Earned through popularity
    - - not socially popular
        
        sexually attractive and perceived as a good bet for being equipped to provide for one's offspring
        
        Gene transmission success
      - Commonly a false advertisement
  - - - Delusions
        
        Immerse themselves in delusions in order to secure a sense of meaning and convince themselves their existence is not absurd
        
        Myths and Fictions
        
        produce illusions for us to believe our story will be continued on
  - - - Emotion of pride in children
  - - - Notion of salvation and promise of everlasting life through prayer and worshiping
- - - - Tombstones
        
        Symbolic immortality
        
        Way to document an imprint of our experiences
        
        Maybe just an anxiety buffer of
        one's own failed legacy
    - - Leisure drive and legacy drive
        
        Blend of Drives
        
        Attraction to the internet
        
        Prosocial behaviour
- - - - Human Behaviour
      - Genetic predispositions
      - Genes
      - Jealousy
        
        Marriage
        
        Monogamous culture when men outnumber women
- - - - Memes
        
        Passed vertically down generations
        
        Can impact
- - - - Courtship effort (attracting new mate(s))
        
        'Playing-the-field' effort (courting focus on several potential mates)
        
        'Falling-in-love' effort (courting focus on one potential mate)
      - Mate guarding effort (retaining an existing mate)
- - - - pleasurable diversion from worried mind
        
        Addiction to consumerism
        
        trashed planet
        
        decisions in the hands of men
        
        greater gender neutrality
        
        empower women
        
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        we have evolved brains smart enough to deal with the problem, but lack the motivation to fix the problem
        
        nothing instinctual about saving the planet that would have increased the reproductive success of ancestors
        
        Reproductive success
        
        3 more items...
        
        economic growth and population growth
      - susceptibility to distractions and delusions were in the best interest of our ancestors genes
        
        self- impermeable anxiety buffers protected from consciousness
        
        evolved to manipulate others, and deceive ourselves to perceive the truth