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T_1_20 Verified Psychology & Social

T_1_20 — Evolutionary Psychology Debate

Evolutionary psychology (EP) is the theoretical approach that applies principles of natural selection and adaptation to understand human psychological traits — arguing that the human mind, like the human body, is the pro

evolutionary psychology adaptationism modularity Leda Cosmides John Tooby Gould
R_3_17 Verified Biology & Evolution

R_3_17 — Neoteny & Heterochrony: Developmental Timing in Evolution

Heterochrony — evolutionary change in the timing or rate of developmental processes — is one of the most powerful mechanisms by which organisms evolve new morphologies without requiring entirely new genetic programs. The

neoteny heterochrony paedomorphosis peramorphosis Stephen Jay Gould developmental timing
R_2_05 Biology & Evolution

R_2_05 — Missing Fossil Record and Punctuated Equilibrium

Darwin himself called the fossil record "the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory" — because if evolution occurred through gradual transformation, we should find smooth transitional seq

fossil record transitional fossil missing link punctuated equilibrium Gould Eldredge
R_2_15 Verified Biology & Evolution

R_2_15 — Neoteny and Heterochrony in Human Evolution

Heterochrony — evolutionary change in the timing or rate of developmental processes — is one of the most powerful mechanisms by which evolution generates morphological diversity without requiring new genes. [KEY FINDING]

neoteny heterochrony paedomorphosis peramorphosis developmental-timing skull-morphology
R_1_12 Biology & Evolution

R_1_12 — History of Evolutionary Theory

Evolutionary theory — the unifying framework of modern biology — has itself undergone a remarkable evolution over more than two centuries. Pre-Darwinian ideas included Lamarck's transformism (1809), which proposed that o

history of evolution Darwin Wallace Origin of Species natural selection Lamarck