PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Natural Disaster, Demography
15 Oct 2017
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A change in the genetic composition of a population over time as a result of the environment determining which individuals are most likely to survive and reproduce. Where there is variation among individuals of a species, some is heritable, most generation have more offspring than can survive and reproduce, and the best adapted survive and reproduce. Evolution by natural selection: variability exists, variability is passed on (hereditary, some variants survive and reproduce better than others (selection) English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled charles. Malthus english economist, demographer, and cleric who suggested that unless self-control, war, or natural disaster checks population it will increase exponentially as food production increases linear.
