Lecture 01 Flashcards
1
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Dr. Lionel Tiger
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Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers; stated hope and optimism are different
2
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Hope
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confidence that there is ultimate meaning, even in loss, and that everything works to the good in the fullness of time, even if it is only given to us to know defeat and suffering in our place and time.
3
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Optimism
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superficial view that everything is going to work out fine ‘because it has to’
4
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Natural Selection
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a direct mechanism of changing populations over time that leaves them better-suited to their environments; there is differential survival among individuals
5
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Decent with Modification
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Over time the differential survival can lead to a change in the population
6
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Innate behaviors
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Instinctual
7
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Learned behaviors
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Aquired
