PSYB65H3 Chapter 12: Human Brain - Chapter 12.docx
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Chapter 12 humans, human brain and evolution. 1859 > charles darwin all living creatures are subject to selection. Physical and beh changes due to selection pressure little doubt that humans have been and coninue to be subjected to evolutionary forces. We do not like to think of ourselves as animals and as being subject to the laws of nature. Charles darwin and alfred russel wallace > july 1, 1858 > both developed the theory independently [naturalists w/ interests in geology] Darwin > hms beagle > fascinated by how species emerged and how geographic isolation on islands produced such a variety of features in what he presumed were the same species. Wallace > relationship btwn specific geographic locations and their effects on specific characteristics of the species that inhabited that niche: sent his paper to darwin which confirmed his theory of evolution. On the origins of species, 1859 darwin.
