Evolutionary Psychology
Konrad Lorenz
Evolutionary psychology is an approach wherein knowledge and principles from biological evolution are used to guide research on the human mind and its structure.  It is a way of analyzing ant topic in psychology.
Natural selection preserves and gathers minor advantageous genetic mutations.  If a member of a species developed a “functional advantage” such as growing wings, its offspring would inherit this and pass it along their offspring. Natural selection involves preserving a functional advantage that allows a species to function  better in the wild.
Charles Darwin
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Herbert Spencer
Among other things he was a EUGENICIST: Eugenics is the “pseudoscience” which deals with improving the inborn qualities of a race through selective breeding. This movement and its misuse of evolutionary theory supported racist ideas in the 1800s.
Francis Galton
Heinroth Lorenz discovered imprinting, a fast and irreversible learning process that occurs early in life. His claim that aggressive impulses are innate, and the analogies he drew between human and animal behavior have caused much controversy over the years.
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Arranged by Gordon Vessels, Ed.D. 2004