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Zeitgeist
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The general intellectual climate of our culture.
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Ethology
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The study of animal behavior in the wild.
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Asomatognosia
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A deficiency in the awareness of parts of one's own body. Typically involves left side of body because of damage to the right pariental lobe
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Fitness
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Darwinian sense--the ability of an organism to survive and contribute its genes to the next generation.
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Scientific Theory
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An explanation that provides the best currenct account of some phenomenon based on the available evidence.
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Conspecifics
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Members of the same species.
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Chordates
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Animals with dorsal nerve cords (large nerves that run along the center of the back or dorsum).
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Vertebrates
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Chordates that posses the spinal bones called vertebrae.
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Mammals
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Seperated from others by the way the females fed their young with secretions from their mammary glands.
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Taxonomy Scale of a Human
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Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordate Class: Mammal Order: Primate Family: Hominid Genus: Homo Species: Sapiens |
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Spandrels
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The incidental nonadaptive evolutionary by-products.
**Belly buttons: they serve no adaptive function and are merely the by-product of the umbilical cord. |
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Exaptations
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Evolved to perform one function and were later co-opted to perform another.
**Bird wings: they are limbs that first evolved for the purpose of walking. |
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Homologous
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Structures that are similar because they have a common evolutionary origin.
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Analogous
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Structures that are similar but do not have a common evolutionary origin
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Convolutions
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Folds on the cerebral surface
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