PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Limbic System, Heritability, Chemical Castration
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Chapter 2 theories of crime: biological and evolutionary. Ancestral environment: the hunter-gatherer era from which most of our current-day adaptations are hypothesized to evolve. A theory is an explanation of a phenomenon. Franz gall phrenology; a r/l b/w the shape and size of a person"s head and behavior. Gall"s student, spurzheim, used phrenology to explain why 30 women killed their kids. He said they had an underdeveloped part of the brain responsible for loving children. Sp failed to include a comparison group (women who didn"t kill their kids) Lombroso began comparing criminals to normal people. He argued criminals possess distinctive physical features atavisms. Criminals were evolutionary throwbacks who have more in common with neanderthals. Although his theory lost their gusto, lombroso is the father of criminology . Published on the origins of species in 1859, 17 yrs before lombroso published the. Humans evolved from ancestral species via natural selection.