PSY BEH 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
4 Dec 2017
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Interesting differences between the two and their understandings of evolution. Evolutionary theory provided the unifying explanation of biology. ^ultimate explanations - pushes it further to figure out why. It is a unifying paradigm: you take all of these fields to understand all other topics in psychology. Essay: nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. 1831: leaves on the beagle (famous voyage of discovery - sailing around the world to make observation) 1844: first letter and essay about the process of natural selection. 1856: darwin"s reads wallace"s on the law misunderstands, dismissed as unoriginal. 1844: wallace reads malthus (doubling population - fear of running out of resources) 1853: first mention of evolutionary thinking in on the monkeys of the amazon". 1855: expanded thoughts in on the law which has regulated the introduction of the species". 1858: wallace sends on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original.
