Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Good Energy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Evoluion if you condense the evoluion ime line > 1 year = 9. 6 million years. 11:54 on dec 21 - homo sapiens. Prior, he did not want to release his indings, because of religious pressures. Wallace, another naturalist, joined with him and published theory the theory is based on economics (wriings of adam smith) lets everyone struggle and the most successful will survive. For psych, we talk closer to the proximal side. But phenotype doesn"t equal genotype traits not necessarily due to natural selecion/genes. Geneic drit: founder efect: chance ie) afrikaner populaion - when coming to south africa, only 16 families survived and in that small populaion, it was a high gene concentraion of huningtons, so now, Huningtons rates are high ie) in europe, a lot more people are depressed, this is because its dark all the ime. Other rested trait elecion ie) humans may have needed the use of thumb, but it caused them to have a bigger hand.