PSYB30H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - Evolution and Human Nature
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Lecture 2: chapter 2 evolution and human nature. study of the person must begin with human nature. contemporary scientific understandings of human nature focus on human evolution: human beings have evolved to survive and reproduce, evolution and human nature provide the most fundamental context for understanding human individuality. a fundamental property of living things is that they propagate: all animals and plants produce similar versions of themselves making for the continuity of like from one generation to the next. organisms are a product of a long chain of evolutionary events whereby replicating systems compete for resources. successful systems are those that produce viable copies of themselves. system must meet the demands imposed by the environment the design of all diverse organisms were permuted out of the simple single-celled ancestor through a long sequence of modifications.
