One of the Challenges with Which Charles Darwin Was Confronted

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Essay

One of the challenges with which Charles Darwin was confronted about his theory was the fact that he could not explain how variation persisted in a population when his theory of natural selection appeared to continually reduce variation because only certain individuals survive and reproduce in a given environment. Why could he not explain it?

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Definitions:

Change Blindness

A phenomenon where an observer does not notice a significant change in a visual scene, indicating limitations in attention and perception.

Change Blindness

A phenomenon where a person does not notice some significant change in the visual field, indicating limitations in attention and perception.

Inattentional Blindness

a psychological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits, where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.

Parallel Processing

Parallel processing in psychology refers to the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, a key component of most cognitive processes.