NEUR 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Olfactory Bulb, Homo Erectus, Animal Husbandry
8 Apr 2016
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Franz gall irst person to suggest localizaion. However paul broca was the one to actually igure that out. Mentalism is the view that behaviour is a product of intangible enity called the mind brain has litle importance. Dualism immaterial mind that acts through the material brain brain alone responsible for behaviour in other animals. Materialism: behavior can be fully explained by the workings of the nervous system, without explanatory recourse to an immaterial mind(brain, spinal cord and nerves, dominant today believe mood thinking and movement are due to the brain. Supported evoluionary theories of alfred wallace and charles darwin. Both were struck at the many similariies among species. Main components to the theory of evoluion. 3) programs of selecive breeding animal husbandry bread with the traits that are dominant in speciic animals within that species. Traits that are heritable: natural selecion: variaions in traits that increase itness will increase the probability of that species" survival geneic mutaion.
