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natural selection
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evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environements are passed to ensuing generations
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evolutionary psychology
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study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection
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culture
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enduring bheaviors, ideas, attidues, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
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norms
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standards for accepted and expected behavior
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personal space
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buffer zone we maintain around our bodies; its six dpeends on our familiarity with whoever is near us
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gender in psychology
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the characteristics by which people define male and female (biological or socially)
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empathy
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experience of another's feelings
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aggression
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behavior intended to hurt someone
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androgynous
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mixing both masculine and feminine characteristics
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gender roles
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set of behavior expectations (norms) for males and females
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interact
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effect of one factor (such as biology) depends on another fact (such as environment)
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