PSYC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anatomically Modern Human, Proximate And Ultimate Causation, Ontogeny

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 385
• Professor: Timothy Racine

Document Summary

Ep claim evolutionary adaptedness where our cog skills we have are adapted to in the pleistocene era. Holocene period: the warming period after pleistocene: modern agriculture began. Ep say that our basic ways t=of thinking and reasoning came well before the holoscene era b/c change is too slow from an evolutionary pov for there to be much adaptation to vary in life. Anthropocene: characterizes the particular geological and ecological period they were in now--the activities humans had in the enviro. This distinguishes between the pleistocene and holocene era via change in climate. Evolutionary causation explained by racine"s and johnson & dane"s reading (evolutionary psychology pov) Mayr (1961) distinguished b/w: ultimate causation: (cid:449)h(cid:455) a phe(cid:374)ot(cid:455)pe (cid:449)as (cid:374)atu(cid:396)all(cid:455) sele(cid:272)ted, o(cid:396) (cid:862)why it exists(cid:863) (cid:448)s. Why did naturally selection preserve a particular phenotype? what they"re designed for/what their function is. Are evolutionary causes proximate causation: (cid:449)hat is i(cid:373)(cid:373)ediatel(cid:455) (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le fo(cid:396) a phe(cid:374)ot(cid:455)pe, o(cid:396) (cid:862)how it works(cid:863)