[PSY-B 356] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (73 pages long!)

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Note: a main point in chapter 1: motivation traced to fundamental processes of life. Noticed close similarities amongst certain species, which suggested some sort of. Change due to natural processes (erosion, sedimentation, volcanism) Different layers of stratified rock represented different time periods. Each layer had distinctive fossil remains of plants and animals. Age of earth much older than previously thought (biblical age: 6,000 years; now estimated 4. 5 billion years) An individual can acquire traits during its lifetime which can be passed on to the next generation. When population reaches limit ---> famine, disease, war. Son of wealthy physician (robert darwin) and susannah wedgwood darwin. First to went to medical school u of edinburgh -dropped out. Then studied to become a priest at cambridge. While at cambridge darwin was befriended and mentored by professors adam. Recommended darwin to go on 2-year voyage of the hms beagle under captain. Studied geology and biology of the pacific coast of south america and some.