PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Green Iguana, Chromosome, Ronald Fisher
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Ch. 1:the scientific movements leading to evolutionary psychology (ep) Landmarks in the history of evolutionary thinking pg. The guy who got it wrong doesn"t happen that fast: lamarck (1744-1829) popularized the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics. Animals struggle to survive and this causes the relevant organs and structures to change. Think giraffes: the theory is mechanistically plausible and it could potentially explain evolution and the existence of purposeful structures. Similarities: embryonic forms, bone arrangements and functions, fossils, animals and their environments. For most traits but not all (number of eyes) Evolution in action: in the summer of 1995, at least 15 green iguanas survived hurricane marilyn on several large rafts of uprooted trees. Apparently these rafts broke off the island of guadeloupe: the iguanas rode the high seas for a month before colonizing the caribbean island of. Anguilla, about 150 miles north of where they began: these few individuals were perhaps the first of their species, iguana iguana, to reach.
