PSYC 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homo Erectus, Superior Colliculus, Australopithecine
4 Apr 2016
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Chapter 6: evolution of the brain and behavior. Chimpanzees and humans differ in only about 1. 2% Social rearing is important for development but cannot explain the differences between chimps and humans. About 200 years ago, it was believed that each species had been created separately. Naturalists began to have doubts: naturalists: a student of the forms and classification of organisms. The bones of animals are created on modifications of a single plan rather than completely different path. Evolution: process by which a population of interbreeding individuals" changes over long periods of time: fossils confirmed evolution. Animal species are continually changing across the generations, gaining some features and losing others. In 1858, charles darwin and alfred russell wallace stated the hypothesis of evolution by natural selection: evolution by natural selection: the darwinian theory that evolution proceeds by differential success in reproduction. Darwin published his revolutionary book on the origin of species by means of natural selection .
