ANT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Embodied Cognition, Congo River, Natural Selection
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First essay should be back by friday: look for comments. Make claim/defend it: applying concept to evidence: think about order of paragraphs. Lecture composition book due at 5:00 pm outside lang 211 march 3. Cerebrum: important from detailed map, grids/networks that map out body. Neurons/spinal cord/quadropedal mammal: particular genes: synaptic toward these neurons. Combo to response about how the body is moving forward. Flat ground: fall forward: exterior phase of opposite side, lift other food off ground. Combination of maintaining alternate rhythm: momentum minimizes amount of electrical firing to keep momentum going. Physicality of body can interact/minimize amount of work genes have to do to and work to nerve endings and other muscles. Once you get a motor going: feedback would push forward: resistance, but not too much: cascade of feedbacks: end up grasping onto human hand: change environment. Multiples: phalynx joints: grasp on by extending arm arranged w/ minimal instruction from shoulder.
