PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Natural Disaster, Demography
15 Oct 2017
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Evolution by natural selection: variability exists, variability is passed on (hereditary, some variants survive and reproduce better than others (selection) 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. 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. 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. English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled charles.
