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Sexy Psych Final
Great Sex
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ontogenetic | How a trait changes across the life of an organism. ie experience, maturation, learning, culture, teaching |
| Proximate/Mechanistic | How a trait works/The mechanisms behind the function of the trait. Ex. hormones, brain structures, cognitive mechanisms, morphology, physical constraints |
| Phylogenetic | The history of an evolutionary trait. ie species comparisons, homology, homoplasies, convergence, divergence |
| Tinbergen's levels of Analysis | Ontogenetic, Proximate/Mechanistic, Phylogenetic, Ultimate/Functional |
| Ultimate/Adaptive/Functional | How a trait helps and organism survive/reproduce. How a trait improves reproductive success. |
| evolution | change in the frequency of alleles in a given population |
| phenotype | the outer appearance of a trait |
| geneotype | the genetic make-up of the trait that gives rise to the phenotype |