PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Twin, Prosimian, Phenylketonuria
8 Jun 2015
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22: oliver sacks (1985, patient was suffering from asomatognosia ( a deficiency in the awareness of parts, asomatognosia results from the damage to the right parietal lobe, the patient didn"t realize that the leg in his bed was his, so he threw it off the bed of one"s own body) but went along with it because he didn"t realize it was attached to him. 3 kinds of supporting evidence: change: he documented the evolution of fossil records through progressively more recent geological layers, he described striking structural similarities among living species (meaning the evolved from common ancestors, described major changes that had been brought about in domestic plants/animals by programs of selective breeding, darwin argued that evolution occurs through natural selection (heritable traits that are associated with high rates of survival and reproduction are preferentially passed on to future generations, fitness (is the ability of an organism to survive and contribute its genes to the next generation)
