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What is evolution?
When organisms inherit characteristics from previous generations
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What is 'survival of the fittest'?
This is when organisms best suited to the environment survive to reproduce
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How can we say aggression is an evolved concept?
It could have evolved from our ancestors so that we can protect ourselves
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What does fighting help do?
Assert dominance against the rival and those around
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How is aggression useful?
It helps scare away rivals and those we may see to be a threat. It is considered attractive to females and helps increase status
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How can aggression be caused by inheritance?
The person may carry an aggressive gene and alongside situational factors such as; an abusive upbringing it can lead to aggression
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How does Daly and Wilson support this approach?
They found in a quarter of murder cases the murderer was motivated by jealousy or warning to enemies
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How does Mazur support the approach?
Because he found that males showed an increase in fighting behaviour around puberty where hormones and genes are developing
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What does this approach ignore and why is this a weakness?
It ignores factors such as; upbringing which the learning approach acknowledges, so it is too reductionist meaning it cannot be the whole explanation which decreased credibility
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Why does this theory lack testability?
We cannot test links and genes from our ancestors from in the past so evidence is hard to gather
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Why is the theory deterministic?
Because it suggests that people have no free-will against their actions when people do. This reduces the credibility of the theory
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