BIOL 1001 Lecture 8: 8-2. Lecture 8 - Why Learning Natural Selection is Difficult
15 Jan 2016
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P-prims: = phenomenological primitives, automatic, intuitive, shallow processing components that are used for cognition, p-prims = phenomenological primitives = common knowledge, common sense = time-tested explanations the answer is based on notions rather than physical principles. For natural selection 4 fallacies (p-prims: anthropomorphic thinking. Somebody is in charge: teleological thinking in control. The needs of an organisms \ generate evolutionary solutions. Needs / goals: progressive thinking the process \ drives towards complexity & perfection. P-prim: we are the end-point (not true) Cultural notion of scale of nature = chain of being p-prim there is no scale of nature (higher / lower organisms) There is no drives towards perfection / complexity. More highly evolved than this is not true: typological thinking. An entire population transforms as it adapts. An entire population \ transforms uniformly as it adapts (an adaptation = a heritable. You cannot point to one generation where a mother gives birth to a child of a different species.
