PSYC 3420 Lecture 3: Evolutionary Psychology Lecture 3

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3420
• Professor: Krista A Phillips

Document Summary

Evolutionary psychology lecture 3: since darwin"s time, developments in genetics have served to reinforce his conclusions. He did get a few things wrong, such as how long evolution took, how long mechanisms of inheritance take place. Natural selection recap: where organisms vary and variation is heritable, more successful varieties become more numerous, natural selection is only partly a matter of survival. The phrase survival of the fittest is not a phrase by darwin, it was coined by herbart spencer. He exploited darwin"s theory and used it to support a radical right wing political view. Damaged the thought of evolutionary psychology: carl marks also used the darwinian theory in the same way. He argued that if competition exist that the natural order requires governmental intervention. He said without the governmental control, humans do not and cannot act in a just manner: any theory and any set of facts can be used to promote a particular political ideology.