PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Robert Malthus, Social Darwinism, Applied Psychology
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Idea spread as far back as in ancient greece. Jean lemarck: transformational view of evolution, noted that fossils resembled living species (ancestors) First to state that organisms change over time. Innate urge to become more complex and perfect: change due to the demands of their environment. Strive to survive not to be perfect: epigenetics. Thomas malthus: overcrowding, more people living than dying. Life goes smoothly is everyone is well: nature somehow takes care of himself. Spencer believed that evolution is progress: darwin believed that there was no direction in evolution. Social darwinism is the survival of the of the fittest: comes from spencers application. Suggests earth had passed through various stages of development (cid:862)p(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t is the ke(cid:455) to the past(cid:863) Layers upon lays of the earth show that it is millions of years old: the world is much older than we think, the world gives us info about the past.