DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Industrial Revolution, Intelligentsia, Carl Linnaeus
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What was the significance of the evolutionary theory particularly for psychology. Unraveled the way life in the universe came about, constantly changes and adapts itself to changing circumstances. Classify humans in the same grouping as primates. Plants that cross fertilize seemed to be stronger. Natural selection/survival of the fittest some variants have an advantage and start to outgrow. When an organism with a new feature is placed amid a group of other organisms, this new feature will not expand but dilute in the pool of existing features until in the end virtually nothing remains. Evolution could only appear when a change in the environment favored a whole group of individuals at the same time. Genes induce a change in a plant false because gene has no knowledge about environment. Material now and then has a random alteration which mostly results in offspring that don"t differ from their parents.
