PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Parental Investment, Falsifiability, Devonian
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Chapter 2: the new science of evolutionary psychology. Ancestral men would have faced the challenge of finding fertile women to be their sexual partners. Thus, we can predict that men should be able to detect (and direct their attention) to women who are ovulating. He describes several studies providing evidence for this. How can you get something complicated out of a totally random process: three theories of origins of complex adaptive mechanisms. Life came from outer space from some sort of seed. Organizes known facts, all of which support it selectively preserved randomness yields complexity. Leads to additional predictions and areas of study. You only see products not millions of evolutions that have died off. Natural selection continuously sieves for good features. Monkey and a typewriter how long would it take for a monkey randomly typing to type the entire work of shakespeare? (it would never happen)
