PSY 401 1st Edition Lecture 22 Outline of Last Lecture I Structuralism a Clinical Psychology i Emil Kraepelin ii Lightner Witmer II Evolutionary Theory a Erasmus Darwin b Jean Baptiste Lamarck i Progressionism ii Transmutation of Species c Charles Darwin i H M S Beagle Outline of Current Lecture I Evolutionary Theory a Charles Darwin i H M S Beagle ii Alfred Russell Wallace 1823 1913 iii On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1859 iv Descent of Man 1871 Current Lecture II Evolutionary Theory a Charles Darwin i H M S Beagle 1 5 year journey lots of ecosystems to gather data from to create the theory of natural selection 2 Read Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell a Uniformitarianism geological changes are slow process people do not notice changes b Catastrophism major characteristics emerged all of a sudden with catastrophic consequences what Lyell argued against single event brief time big impacts c Darwin took away from this major changes over long period of time that people do not notice right away These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 3 Read Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus a Resources grow in a linear fashion population grows exponentially geometrically b When the population exceeds the resources point of crisis population will start dying of i Can either increase death rate or decrease birth rate ii No excess of resources iii Darwin took away from this some ofspring will die of what determines which live and die 4 Galapagos Islands Fall 1835 a Lots of data from a lot of diferent organisms b Noticed certain characteristics difered across species on the diferent islands ii Alfred Russell Wallace 1823 1913 1 Contemporary researcher interested in evolution 2 Want to amazon to collect research 3 Theory in given population there are more organisms than resources ones that live have certain characteristics or behavior that are advantageous 4 This pushed Darwin to publish his writings iii On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1859 1 Surplus of ofspring leads to struggle for survival 2 Individual diferences with survival values are passed on to later generations adaptive traits slow gradual change may not notice right away iv Descent of Man 1871 1 Humans as part of animal kingdom not separate species 2 Continuity of species relationship between species a Humans difer in quantitative way but not qualitative way b Looked at traits that were uniquely human and showed their presence in animals emotion social intelligence communication brain development
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