PSYC 3100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Orrorin, David Buss, Overconsumption

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Don Dedrick

Document Summary

Idea that living things are very complicated, they could only be the product of an intelligent designer, not evolution. His example: if we were to nd a watch, its ne structures would convince is that a watch maker had made it. By analogy, living things have complex structure, instruments designed for special purposes. We should use the explanation which assumes the fewest unknown forces it should make the smallest number of unsupported assumptions. Hypothesis includes unobservable supernatural being with unobservable powers. We go from something we understand moderately well (an animal) to something we understand not at all (an in nite designer) Darwin"s theory explained how natural forces of selection, acting upon inherited features, could gradually shape the evolution of organic structures. Evolution as the non-random selection of random events. Evolution: (1) the change in appearance, or gene frequencies, of populations and species over generations, (2) the origins and extinctions of species.