A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.

Enjoy this additional primer on epigenetics from Foundations of Neuroscience. 

Check out this lecture video on the evolution of the brain, including comparisons on human brains to the brains of other animals. 

A link to the NOBA chapter covering the basics of evolutionary psychology.

HHMI Biointeractive provides this interesting short film about the ability to process lactase and evolution over time.

This summary of the development of the nervous system is available from Britannica.

In this NOBA chapter, you can read more about the interaction between genetics and the environment. 

I recommend the documentary "The Ghost in Our Genes," which I cannot link here for copyright reasons. In this documentary, hear more about epigenetics, and some very interesting research studies aimed at looking at the relationship between genes and the environment.