PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Darwinism, Intern Academy, Selective Breeding

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Darwinian evolution: there is variation within a species, some people high iq, some people have low iq, brown hair, black hair, individuals sprinkled with evolution. Individuals tend to reproduce more offspring than potentially that can be supported than environment: fail to pass on characteristics to the next generation; selection, some individuals are selected for, other individuals seleted against. Natural selection- naturally world, humans don"t choose the choosing the environment does the choosing; predators pick off prey, and those prey don"t survive and reproduce. Disease infect individuasl and those don"t reproduce, other individuals stravationg will select idividuals; good traits to find food, avoid predation, fend off disease, those individuals survive and reproduce, selection comes fmor envioment; explains speciation and change over time. Human evolution-mammals (warm-blooded, mammary glands, internal fertilization placenta); 200 milino years ago. Premonkeys, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, europeans (south america new world, old world. Stoen tools- stone flaking- handy man, use tools,