HUMANDEV 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oral Stage, Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex
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Early childhood (2-3 years to 5-6 years) Middle childhood (5-6 years to 12 years) Young adulthood (18-21 years to 40 years) Wrote origins of the species through natural selection (1859) Favorable characteristics will be more frequent thru generations, species will be modified. Every aspect of evolutionary change can be reduced to a generation by generation modification of gene frequencies in a population under the influence of natural selection. Species defined as the largest groups within which reproductively all members are fully compatible. Published work in 1866, invisible factors now called genes. International scientific research project w goal of determining sequence of chemical bases that make up human dna. Future: cut birth defects by 50%, extended lifespan by 5 yrs, increase food production by. Future: by 2034, you"ll be able to choose the characteristics of your children. Started career in 1881 in vienna, studied cerebral palsy, cocaine, and aphasia.