title: The fitness of categories and vice versa.
abstract: Two basic propositions are developed as useful in an evolutionary analysis of the origins of complex biobehavioral categories: 1. Such categories derive from the gradual accumulation of a very large number of categoric alternatives, each of which is very small, and 2. Fitness considerations provide valuable insight into the ultimate decision process whereby these micro-categories, and thus eventually, all more complex categories, are achieved.
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000818:Animals; D001519:Behavior; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001695:Biology; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D005823:Genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012098:Reproduction; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012727:Sex Characteristics