PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Wii, Ethology, Meiosis
26 Jun 2014
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Chapter 1: evolution and motivation: two life processes, reproduction and metabolism, characterize life. The maintenance of life through metabolism allows the organism to live long enough to reproduce and primary motive. All motives, physical and psychological serve to maintain life in order to increase the chances of reproduction the representation of one"s genes in the next generation (p. 21, 22, 25: primary operating principle (pop): Reproduction is the pop and various motives serve to increase likelihood of this pop occurring successfully. The survival of each partner"s dna is dependent on reproduction: meiosis produces a recombination of genes and thus offspring possess a greater diversity of genes. This allows for repair of genetic information, for dominant gene to cover a recessive feature, and for beneficial mutations: evolution: the progressive change in organisms across time. Darwin and wallace (1858 59) page 25. Physical and behavioural elements that are beneficial and adaptive will continue to exist and persist in the gene pool.
