Psychology 3228 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Evolutionary Psychology, Long-Term Memory, Behavioral Ecology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3228
• Professor: Scott Mac Dougall- Shackleton

Document Summary

Tried to explain the origins of life in terms of natural as opposed to supernatural. He also proposed that life evolved" out of simpler elements with the most basic element - from which all else ultimately derived - being water. Suggested that in the beginning the world was full of bodily organs (4 elements?) which occasionally came together and joined up, driven by the impelling force of. The results of most of these unions were monstrosities" and died out, but a minority were successful and went on to reproduce, producing copies of themselves (conspicuous similarities to natural selection) Seemingly killed off evolutionary thinking for some time by proposing that each species occupied a particular space in a hierarchical structure known as the. Then females) - ordinary men and women - animals - plants. Moving from one rung to another was not permitted which meant that there was a natural order of things.