PSY290H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Genome Project, Genetic Recombination, Heritability
14 Jul 2013
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Zeitgeist: the general intellectual climate of our culture. We think about things in ways that have been ingrained in us by our zeitgeist. Thinking about the biology of behaviour: from dichotomies to interactions. We tend to ignore subtleties and think in mutually exclusive dichotomies. ^ question rose to prominence after dark ages (truth was whatever church said) At ~1400, famines that swept europe during dark ages subsided. Some renaissance scholars weren"t content to follow dictates of church, so studied things through direct observation. Much of this scientific knowledge was at odds with the church. Ren descartes (1596-1650) - advocated a philosophy that, in a sense, gave one part of the universe to science and the other to the church a) b) Said that universe is composed of 2 elements: Physical matter, which behaves according to the laws of nature and is a suitable object for scientific observation.
