PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Binomial Nomenclature, Formal System, Biogeography

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Douglas adams" speech; 4 ages of sand being: telescope, microscope, computer chip, fiber optics; sand of silica: the scientific revolution. The systematic approach in his book of plants ; oral and written arabic botanical traditions. Organize the living world with the scala naturae- the. Some prominent and easily observed feature is taken as the mark of resemblance or dissemblance. Healing; the canon of medicine a formal system of naming species of living things; two parts- latin grammatical forms; first is the genus and second is the unique identification of the species. Distribution of species and ecosystem in geographic space/ through geological time. Predicting a logical outcome based on strong theory. A method of scientific taxonomy used to group and categorize organisms into groups. Natural sciences research; comparing living animals with fossils; expanded linnaean taxonomy. A source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation.