SYLLABUS FOR PSYCH 199

Date	2:45-4:00 DISCUSSIONS	4:15-5:30 LECTURES	This week's reading
9/5	Introduction and mechanics	Brief definitions	No Reading
9/12	NO CLASS TODAY	(Death came from the sky)	No Reading
9/19	A Priori positions	HISTORY: Preformationism in the 18th and 19th centuries: Lamarck, Von Baer, Darwin, & Haekel	The dependent gene, Chapter 1
9/26	What distinguishes the early theories? (Amanda)	The Selfish Gene	Gottlieb, Chapters 1-4 + Gould readings
10/3	Dawkins' conceptual framework (Jennifer)	Darwin explains social behavior, too	Dawkins, Chapters 1-4
10/10	Selfish Gene II: Political implications (Emily)	The Selfish Gene metastasizes into Sociobiology	Dawkins, Chapters 5-7 Chapter 11
10/17	Sociobiology (Yuko)	Historical roots and current formalisms of behavior genetics	Wilson, Chapters 1-4 + Oyama reading
10/24	What is the goal of Behavior Genetics (and does this make sense?) (Mariah)	Debunking heritability, range of reaction, and identical twins	Gottlieb, Chapters 6 & 8 + Plomin Reading
10/31	The Bell Curve (Anna)	Induction, teleology, and the experimental embryologists	The Bell Curve (readings) Block's critique Gould's critique
11/7	NO CLASS TODAY	(Psychobiology conferences)	Gottlieb, Chapter 7 + The Human Development debate (1995)
11/14	Can Behavior Genetics jibe with Developmental Biology? (Simone)	Epigenesis, how genes work, & what's an environment, anyway?	The dependent gene, Part IV
11/21	NO CLASS TODAY	(Thanksgiving)	No Reading
11/28	Are any traits caused by genes? (Sandra)	Heterochrony, neoteny, recapitulation, and other fancy words	DeCasper & Spence (1986) Turkewitz (1993) Lewontin (1983)
12/5	What do we inherit?	Evolutionary Psychology	Gottlieb, Chapters 12-14
12/12	What's new about Evolutionary Psychology?	David's last thoughts	Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby (1992) Gould & Lewontin (1978)

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