PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, List Of Countries' Copyright Lengths

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 305
• Professor: Lucia Farisello

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In the united states people now want things that are practical and useful for their lives. Americans looking for something new & pragmatic (useful) People (cid:374)o lo(cid:374)ge(cid:396) (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) sto(cid:396)ies like the (cid:1010) da(cid:455)s of (cid:272)(cid:396)eatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d noah(cid:859)s a(cid:396)k. Scientists learning more about the species that inhabit earth (biology) Discove(cid:396)(cid:455) of fossils that did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:373)at(cid:272)h li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g spe(cid:272)ies. Questioning biblical explanations: (cid:862)how could noah fit so (cid:373)a(cid:374)y species i(cid:374)to the arc? (cid:863) Examples like jenny show that animals can be similar to human beings. Idea does not begin with darwin: starts with al-jahiz: book of animals & book of living beings. 350 species of animals: animals adapt to survive, only fittest survive. Erasmus darwin: wrote that all warm-blooded animals evolved from a single line (grandfather of charles darwin: god set life in motion but did not intervene. Noted that fossils resembled living species (ancestors) First to state that organisms change over time. Innate urge to become more complex and perfect.