Psychology 3228 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Great Chain Of Being, Socalled, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3228
• Professor: Caroline Strang

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It is worth adding a caveat to all of this: the above only applies to evolved behavior (or organs); any behavior which has not evolved, such as a purely learned behavior, may not benefit genes at all. In december 2005 judge john jones ruled that intelligent design was not science and therefore it is not permissible to teach it as science in the classroom. In direct contradiction of aristotle, kant imagines how one organism can change over time, perhaps acquiring the characteristics of other organisms. In this way kant presaged evolutionary psychology by two centuries. Dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:859)s o(cid:449)(cid:374) gra(cid:374)dfather, eras(cid:373)us darwin (1731 1802), wrote that all living things (cid:272)ould ha(cid:448)e e(cid:373)erged fro(cid:373) a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) a(cid:374)(cid:272)estor (cid:894)(cid:449)hat he (cid:272)alled (cid:858)o(cid:374)e li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g fila(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:859)(cid:895: he also suggested that competition might be the driving force behind evolution. Between 1858 and 1875 mendel conducted a series of breeding experiments on hybrid pea plants in the garden of his monastery in brunn.