BIOL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anthropomorphism, Fallacy, Transitional Fossil

• School: York University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1001
• Professor: Alexander Mills

Document Summary

P-prims: we all have them and they settle ion to our brains: not collecting all the facts, shallow in analysis. People believe that there is a force, mother nature that makes decisions . Ns says there is not plan, its random. Wallace accused drawin of this: drawin personfiied ns. Through his language he may have confused people. Remember that there are many things going on in ns: and there is a selection ; not controlled by a master plan. Double error: there is a balance in nature (to some extent) but its not always peaceful orin harmony (i. e. species can go extinct) The good of the species : the selfish gene, argues that what is successful may not be for the. Individuals are successful not the whole pop. Traits good for pop and not pop then wont be selected for: if the gene was to sacrifice for offspring then will be selected, bc genes still exist!