PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peppered Moth, Flagellum, Prokaryote

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

Document Summary

Psyc100 lecture 11 (evolutionary psyc last lecture tested on midterm: behaviours are inborn improve adaptation to environment constraints, post hoc explanation, not everything expressed by an organism is by natural selection, sometimes characteristics co-develop. Galapagos island finches: variation of species of finches must assume a common ancestor (like we are all african, selection process is not on gene but on the characteristics, peppered moth example: Moth comes in 2 versions light and dark. Since white moths became easier to see on the dark branch, they got wiped out by natural selection. More dark moths around because better suited for environment. If species better adapted to environment, produce offspring: evolutionary psyc believes strongly in nature of nurture vs nature argument, lost of studies based in weird culture, how did life evolve, first cellular life forms were unicellular prokaryotic cells. No basic features of plant cells: eukaryotic cells found in plants and animals.