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To make this boring course a bit more bearable, I created a mind map for myself. It was very useful during the exam because I could have a good overview of the timeline of the events. If you learn by visualising, this document will be helpful to remember the important aspects of the course.

It is the summary of Task 5. It has all the notes from the mandatory literature textbook (Nettle and Cartwright) It has the summary of the last lecture of the course. It also includes the summary of the mandatory articles: 1) Supporting document I: Is fruit-eating responsible for big brains? --> presents evidence for ecological causes of brain size 2) Supporting document II: Gene that makes the human brain unique identified by scientists --> Example mechanism by which hu...

It is the summary of Task 4. It has all the notes from the mandatory literature textbook (Nettle) It also includes the summary of the mandatory articles: 1) Scott-Phillips, T. C., Dickins, T. E., & West, S. A. (2011). Evolutionary theory and the ultimate–proximate distinction in the human behavioral sciences. 2)Apicalla, The evolution of human cooperation. Cunderlying human 3) Haley, K. L., & Fessler, D. M. T. (2005) Nobody’s watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an ano...

It is the summary of Task 3 . It has all the notes from the mandatory literature textbooks (Nettle, Campbell). It also includes the summary of the mandatory articles: 1) Schmitt, Evaluating evidence of psychological adaptation –How do we know one when we see one? 2) Faurie, C., & Raymond, M. (2005). Handedness, homicide and negative frequency-dependent selection

It is the summary of Task 2. It has all the notes from the mandatory literature textbooks (Nettle, Campbell, Plomin). It has a summary of the lecture 2 It also includes the summary of the mandatory articles: Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., Knopik, V. S., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2016). Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics. Perspectives on Psychological Science Maher, B. (2008). Personal Genomes: The case of the missing heritability. Nature, 456(7218), 18-21.

It is the summary of Task 1. Includes all the necessary notes from the introductory textbooks (Plomin, Nettle, and Campbell) and it has all the notes for the mandatory articles: Raine, A. (2008). From genes to brain to antisocial behaviour.Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(5), 323-328. On how to get from a genetic code to behavioural phenotypes. Alternative: Walum paper (B section). Miller, G. (2010). The Seductive Allure of Behavioral Epigenetics. Science, 329(5987), 24- ...

The document is for the Task 1 of perception. It summarized the Task 1 nicely from the mandatory literature.