PSYC 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proximate And Ultimate Causation, Stereopsis, Rollo May
20 Apr 2017
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Locomotion hind-limb dominated: social life- interact regularly with other members of their species. Selected characteristics that distinguish humans from other primates: focus on the mental development, all human fossils share the same anatomical form; about 30 000 years ago, archaeologists noticed an explosion in artifacts. *think of the eea as due to selective pressures; our modern human environment looks nothing like how our species evolved* Human nature: critics: aristotle claimed that all humans have a nature. Imagination; romantic love; justice/revenge; ability to deceive; many of these attributes are related to the concept of human nature, although many intellects critique these ideas as not being part of. Themes: humans are way too different for there to be a universal human nature. In addition to be individual variance, culture is very arbitrary: human nature is a social construct; one that can be mis-used to discriminate another culture.
