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  2. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    Evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens from a common ancestor with chimpanzees is found in the number of chromosomes in humans as compared to all other members of Hominidae. All hominidae have 24 pairs of chromosomes, except humans, who have only 23 pairs. Human chromosome 2 is a result of an end-to-end fusion of two ancestral chromosomes ...

  3. Dual inheritance theory - Wikipedia

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    Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, [1] was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution.

  4. Objections to evolution - Wikipedia

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    Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different ...

  5. Evolution as fact and theory - Wikipedia

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    Professor of biology Jerry Coyne sums up biological evolution succinctly: [3]. Life on Earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive species – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection.

  6. Evolutionary developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    EDP theory diverges from mainstream evolutionary psychology in both the degree of importance placed on the environment in influencing behavior, and in how evolution has shaped the development of human psychology. [5] Advocates of EDP assert that evolutionary psychologists, while acknowledging the role of the environment in shaping behavior and ...

  7. Evolutionary game theory - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics lead to a modified version of Hamilton's rule where: q>c/b where q (the probability of knowing the social score) must be greater than the cost benefit ratio [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Organisms that use social score are termed Discriminators, and require a higher level of cognition than strategies of simple direct reciprocity.

  8. Cultural evolution - Wikipedia

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    Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change.It follows from the definition of culture as "information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquire from other members of their species through teaching, imitation and other forms of social transmission". [1]

  9. Evolutionary anthropology - Wikipedia

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    paleoanthropology and paleontology of both human and non-human primates; primatology and primate ethology; the sociocultural evolution of human behavior, including phylogenetic approaches to historical linguistics; the cultural anthropology and sociology of humans; the archaeological study of human technology and of its changes over time and space