PSYC 3125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Zoology, Sexual Selection, Outstrip
2 Mar 2018
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1: darwin"s voyage to south america was with the illegitimate descendant of king charles ii, fitzroy, who was a veteran surveyor and ship"s captain. He was looking for someone to go along with him on this unpaid adventure. Interview went badly due to darwin being a liberal and fitzroy being an aristocratic, archconservative captain. However, his father also said that if charles could find someone with reliably common sense who would advise him to go, he would reconsider: his uncle josiah thought it was a great idea. Zealand, australia, and the cape of good hope. Biological discoveries: discovered fossils which were relevant to the uniformitarianism-catastrophism, the devoutly religious fitzroy offered a catastrophist explanation: the extinct species represented animals that had not made i onto noah"s ark and therefore succumbed in the deluge. The return home: henslow excerpted geological passages from his letters in a pamphlet published by the cambridge.
