PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Exaptation, Insulin Resistance, Thermodynamics
4 Feb 2014
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Quizzes (15%), 2 midterms (25%) and final (35%) Quizzes between 8:30-8:45: testing on the main themes and concepts. Kaplan article for next week assigned for tuesday (has material that we will be referring to many times in the course) 1944: if you want to keep a trait in an organized, complex, functional structure you want to require energy to do so it will naturally degrade, organisms seem to follow the second law of thermodynamics due to their organization. If a trait"s structure/operation shows special design for promoting an effect, then selection must have modified the trait for that effect (williams, 1966: special design: references non-random organization (schr dinger) Physiology is often harder, requiring knowledge of chemisty. Evolutionary psychology aspires to be the functional morphology of mind and behaviour. The antikythera mechanism: greek manufacture, possibly dates to the first or second century b. c, oldest known example of a geared mechanism. Step 2: figure out how they operate together.
