BIOL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Teleology, Transitional Fossil, Natural Selection
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Misunderstanding natural selection lecture 10: students learning natural selection lack metacognition (an awareness of well you understand something) Highly automatic, intuitive, and shallow processing components that are used for cognition. It(cid:859)s i(cid:374)tuiti(cid:448)e (cid:894)o(cid:396) deepl(cid:455) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)(cid:272)epted u(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)all(cid:455)(cid:895) than physical principles: fallacy a (anthropomorphism) Natu(cid:396)al sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) does(cid:374)(cid:859)t i(cid:374)(cid:448)oke (cid:373)othe(cid:396) (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e (cid:271)ut people ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) i(cid:374)disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t (cid:374)otio(cid:374) that there is a natural force. Does not produce peaceful harmony: even though nature seems to be at balance, it is not always in peaceful harmony e. g when species go extinct. Instead: natural selecton favours traits that increase reproductive success. Can result in exploitation: indirect competition amongst organisms thereby limiting availability of same resources for other organisms, natural selection operates for the good of the species. Instead: the environment selects traits that are beneficial for individuals or their genes. Traits that are bad for individuals or genes will not be selected even if they are good for the species.