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What is uniformitarianism?
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Theory that claims that the earth's major features have resulted from gradual processes occurring over vast streches of time and which continue in the present much as they have in the past
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What is catastrophism?
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The theory that clams that geological features arose beacuse of a few relativelt suden and massice cataclysms or catastrophes on the earth's surface
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What is the argument for design? (Paley)
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Specific organs are so perfectly constructed and adapted that they must have been designed as finished products by some powerful and knowledgeable creator
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What was Lamarck's theory?
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Species evolve and change owing the inheritance to bodily changes produced by the coluntary exercise or disuse of particular organs
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How did Darwin see nature?
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The presence or absence of food, competitors, predators, and other ever-varying exigencies of the environment, not only imposing checks on the unrestricted increase of any species' population but also selecting which individual will tend to survive
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What was Darwin's point in The Descent of Man?
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Human beings have descended from animal ancestors ( the structural similarities between humans and animals). And there are no fundamental differences between man and higher mammals in their mental functions.
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What is sexual selection?
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Gradual selection and evolution of characteristics that are specifically favorable for reproductive succes.
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What is the complementarity hypothesis?
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Men and women have evolved so as to manifest separate psychological characeristics that complement each other
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What is the variation hypothesis?
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That males have been more modified by evolution than females and consequently show more variability among themselves
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What three main principles did Darwin come up with in The Expressions of Emotion in Man and Animal?
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Direct serciceability of the expression, antithesis and direct activation of the nervous system
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What is sociobiology?
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The approach of attempting to account for social behavioral traits as the result of individual but interacting genes tending to replicate themselves throughout successive generations
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What is evolutionary psychology?
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It uses all aspects of modern evolutionary theory to devise emperically testable hypotheses about human behavior
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