PSY BEH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Attractor, Neuroglia, Selective Breeding
17 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
4/15/15: head has been getting smaller, that is why we need to get wisdom teeth removed. Pelvis of a australopithecus is more similar to a human than a chimp and their feet and leg bones are similar to humans as well: different because we have to stand upright and not on four legs. That is how we knew if walked just like humans. Brain size has increased in the hominid line because of. Elaboration of sensory/motor areas- ne-grained nger dexterity, opposable thumbs. Converging evidence: de nes a scienti c strategy of using multiple, independent methods to test a theory. Important for investigations of evolution: cladogram-evolutionary tree. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the sense of evolution: methods for investigation evolution from a biological perspective. Establishes behavior pattern of recognition and attraction to another animal of its own kind or to a substitute or an object identi es as the parent.
