Psychology 3950F/G Lecture Notes - Gustav Fechner, Pseudoscience, Arithmetic Progression
22 Nov 2013
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Charles darwin (1809-1882) was born in shrewsbury, england. After primary school he went to edinburgh to study medicine. But surgery without anaesthesis was appalling, not appealing. Next to cambridge to prepare for ordination as an anglican clergyman. Henslow was unable to take up the post of naturalist on the beagle. Darwin went instead and the rest is history. Lasted 5 years and netted darwin thousands of specimens, many of from the galapagos. There he had noted deviations in animals, otherwise similar, when found on different islands (darwin, E. g. , finches who s beaks varied from long and thin, good for snatching insects from crevices, to short and fat, good for cracking seeds. Darwin notes the islands with long-beaked finches tended to have lots of insects hiding in crevices and those with short and thick beaks were devoid of such fauna but had lots of hard-to-crack seeds. Home to england and the origin of species.
