Astronomy 2021A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Adenine, Htc One X, Neural Development

• School: Western University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: Astronomy 2021A/B
• Professor: Martin Zinke- Allmang

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Advocated a philosophy that gace one part of the universe to science and the other part to the church. The human brain and the mind as separate entities. Nature-nurture issue: debate about whether human and other animals inherit their behavioral capacities or acquire them through learning. Ethology: the study of animal behavior in the wild. Focussed on the study of instinctive behaviors. Emphasized the role of nature or inherited factors, in behavioral development. Early ethologists assumed instinctive behaviors are entirely inherited (wrong) All behavior is the product of interactions among three factors: the o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)is(cid:373)"s ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272) e(cid:374)do(cid:449)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is a p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)t of its e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374, its experience, its perception of the current situation. Mode(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:271)iolog(cid:455) (cid:271)ega(cid:374) i(cid:374) 1(cid:1012)5(cid:1013) (cid:449)ith the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of cha(cid:396)les da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s o(cid:374) the o(cid:396)igi(cid:374) of. Natural selection: the heritable traits associated with high rates of survival and reproduction are the most likely one to be passed on to future generations.