Evolution Flashcards
Who’s beliefs? The earth is very old and changes in population occur through slow, gradual changes
Charles Lyell
Jean Baptiste Lamark’s beliefs?
Children are like their parents
Thomas Malthus’ beliefs?
Not enough food, we have to compete and the strongest will survive
Who coined survival of the fittest?
Herbert Spencer
Galton’s law?
Each parent contributes 1/2 of the genes to their offspring
What did Charles Darwin find on the Galápagos Islands?
Different species of the same bird but different beaks for different environments
What is biological evolution?
Change in the properties of groups of organisms over generations
What components make up descent with modification?
Reproduction, competition, and selection
What is evolutionary psychology?
Psychological traits in terms of evolutionary processes
What is the fast pathway called and what does it do?
Amygdala. It sees if there is a danger in the environment. And it is fast but stupid.
What is the slow pathway called and what does it do?
Cortex. It tells the amygdala information and it is slow but smart.
What is it called when an individual makes alliances?
Altruism
Which of these are true according to evolutionary theory?
a) Survival of the fittest
b) evolution is just a theory
c) humans are at the top of the ladder
d) humans evolved from monkeys
e) evolution is a completely random process
None
