PSY-B - Psychology PSY-B 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Selection, Carl Linnaeus, Fecundity
11 Jan 2017
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Note: a main point in chapter 1: motivation traced to fundamental processes of life. Evolution: process by which living things developed from primitive organisms through changes over time. Noticed close similarities amongst certain species, which suggested some sort of. Change due to natural processes (erosion, sedimentation, volcanism) Different layers of stratified rock represented different time periods. Each layer had distinctive fossil remains of plants and animals. Age of earth much older than previously thought (biblical age: 6,000 years; now estimated 4. 5 billion years) An individual can acquire traits during its lifetime which can be passed on to the next generation. When population reaches limit ---> famine, disease, war. Son of wealthy physician (robert darwin) and susannah wedgwood darwin. First to went to medical school u of edinburgh -dropped out. Then studied to become a priest at cambridge. While at cambridge darwin was befriended and mentored by professors adam.
