PSYC 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: E. O. Wilson, Konrad Lorenz, Songbird
16 Apr 2020
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Chapter 1: the scientific movements leading to evolutionary psychology (pgs 21- 80) Introduction: understanding the human mind/ brain mechanisms in evolutionary perspective is the goal of evolutionary psychology. Psyc3420: evolutionary psychology: what theorists missed was explaining how change might take place over time and how these purposeful structures could have come about, charles darwin provided the theory of just such a process! Defined as reproductive success relative to others: natural selection focuses on adaptations that have arisen as a consequence of successful survival. It takes millions of generations to see the process of selection to gradually shape the mechanisms we see today. In 1859, darwin"s theory viewed each species as being connected with all other species through a common ancestor: many human genes have counterpart genes in a transparent warm called. The ethology movement: darwin thought his theory of natural selection was as applicable to behaviour as well, one of the first theories of ethology documented was imprinting.
