Evolution (Edexcel A-Level Psychology): Flashcards

Gradual development of species from earlier ancestral forms

Better-adapted organisms survive & reproduce more successfully

Units of heredity with DNA carrying info between generations

Changes in genetic structure making individuals different

Natural selection where successful mate-attractors out-reproduce

Conditions when species first responded to environmental pressures

Resource competition & mate acquisition in EEA

Less physical, more verbal & emotional in nature

Increased inter-male fighting at puberty with testosterone rise

Theories developed retrospectively, can't be empirically tested