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Evolutionary psychology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - He made observations in this time which were crucial to his ideas about evolution
      - Did a 5 year expedition on the Beagle across south america, pacific, australia, africa, then home
    - - 'We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.'
      - Darwinian evolution argues that random mutations causes change and new species and traits. biologist Lynn Margulis, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences said: “New mutations don’t create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”
      - Palentologists cargue that there is a lack of record of intermediate fossils, ones which show a gradual change and transitonal stages in evolution, which darwins theory would suggest exist
      - link to dissentfromdarwin.org
    - - Phenotypic variation exists among individuals within a species, these variations are heritable (not all humans are the same height)
      - When individuals have heritable traits more suited to the environment they are more likely to survive and reproduce (survival of the fittest)
      - In each new generation of a species, more individuals that are able to survive will be produced
      - In summary, some people have weak instincts and step on snakes. the people who do this are going to get bitten and not survive, they will not pass on their genes and make stupid offspring. the people who pass on their genes and create the new generation are people who have sharp insincts and avoid snakes, over time our traits become more streamlined and adapted to our snake filled environment
  - - - consisting of hunting animals fishing gathering food and small scale societies
      - Beleived to have lasted about 2 million years
    - - Easier to find a partner now thanks to larger social circles increased socialisation such as online dating and increased globalisation
      - We are now dependent on others for specialist tasks as we have access to many people, whereas in small ancestral environments we would need to be a jack of all trades
      - Now an abundance of food (supermarkets) and we dont have to hunt and gather
      - In modern society we are organised into classes and hierarchies whereas ancestral society had more of a flat structure with most people as equals
      - We live in much larger groups now like cities instead of smale scale societies of around 50 people
  - - - Domain specificity- each module operates on certain input, it is specialised
      - Mandatory operation- inputs are always processed without exception
      - Informational encapsulation- modules do not need to refere to other systems in order to operate (the information and input is kept in a capsule
      - Limited central accessibility- the flow of information out of the module is restricted (?)
      - Fast processing- encapsulation and mandatory processing ensures speed as processing is immediate and does not require communication with other areas