![]() Galton was impressed by how well people he met had adapted to their harsh desert environment (Kalahari).Anthropologist and explorer (sought source of the Nile).Meteorologist, experimented with stereoscopic photos, studied fingerprints, invented an early teletype.Galton was one of the last amateur scientists, with eclectic interests:.Dar win’s theory raised questions about the adaptive value of consciousness and mind & survival.His methods were repeated by Jane Goodall, Piaget, and B.F.Darwin kept detailed records on the growth of his son, Erasmus, and published them in “A Biographical Sketch of an Infant” in Mind, 1877.Darwin studied facial expressions, anticipating later research by Paul Ekman.“The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals.”.Gregor Mendel demonstrated inheritance of physical characteristics in plants and laid the foundation for modern genetics.Lamarck proposed that acquired characteristics can be inherited by offspring, speeding up change.Darwin suggested no genetic mechanism for evolutionary change.Morgan’s canon: “In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.”.In “The Descent of Man,” Darwin argued that “there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.” (1871).Do we share behavioral, emotional and cognitive characteristics with other species?.His theory was hotly debated (see famous Oxford Wilberforce/Huxley debate on pg 308 of text).In 1859, he published his “Origin of the Species,” which sold out immediately. ![]()
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