Key Takeaways

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Natural selection involves a greater survivability of a species that has adapted to the environment.

2. Adaptations can be helpful, harmful, benign, or vestigial. They can involve structural, physiological, or behavioral changes in the organism.

3. Reproductive success is the success in not only reproducing yourself but the subsequent reproductive success of the next generations.

4. Mimicry involves looking or behaving like another organism in order to confer an advantage to the species.

5. Evolutionary psychology involves the probability that behaviors in humans and higher animals are somewhat instinctual and based on what was successful in the huntergatherer society.