PSYC 457 Lecture Notes - Auditory Cortex, Foodborne Illness, Haplodiploidy
8 Dec 2013
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The study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution and interrelationships. He collected animals, measured them and described them. The idea of evolution through natural selection also hit. According to the dictionary - the condition of being fit and healthy; the quality of being suitable to a fulfill a particular role or task. According to biology and this course - an organism"s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment; the amount of healthy, viable offspring that contain that organism"s genetic material which survive will determine that organism"s fitness. One way in which you can become fit is through sexual reproduction. i. e. penguins - one chance at sexual reproduction a year. In terms of fitness, this is incredibly tragic. A female penguin has about 12 eggs in her lifetime. 3 common misunderstandings: survival of the fittest: the theoretically important kind of fitness is that which promotes ultimate reproductive survival.
