PSYC 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Philosophie Zoologique, Georges Cuvier
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Organic evolution: in which structures or systems change in response to external pressures, evolution places human within the animal kingdom, this legitimized the study of animal behavior as a way to learn about human nature. Pre-darwinian evolution: early contributors to the evolutionary zeitgeist: comte, hegel, and geothe. Tendency in organisms toward perfection and increased complexity: 2. Led to his tendency to take on unorthodox beliefs/strong opinions without careful study. Journalist in london: friends with writers and biologist thomas henry huxley (1825-1895), a biologist, huxley became one of darwin"s chief defenders, developed an interest in evolution convinced of lamarck"s validity through a reading by. Sir charles lyell (1797-1857: the principles of psychology (1855, evolutionary doctrine anticipating darwin"s the origin of species (1859) Survival of the fittest is his saying, not darwin"s. Principle of antithesis: exemplified by when a dog becomes submissive when its pet parent approaches, dog assumes postures that are the antithesis of those indicating, 3.
