ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Plants And Animals, Brachiation, Haplorhini
Document Summary
All human cultures seem to have a theory of belief surrounding the origins of humans. How humans are the ultimate products of creation. Accepted that all living things created by god. 1st proposed by aristotle in 4th century bc. All animals arranged in a hierarchy that progressed from simplest to most complex. Saw that certain plants & animals could be distinguished from other groups by their ability reproduce with one another and produce viable offspring. Placed reproductively isolated groups of individuals in a category called species . Recognized that some species shared similarities called genus . Classified living things into a hierarchy of taxonomic categories. Standardized ray"s species & genus, & added class & order. Processes shaping the earth are the same today as they were in the past uniform & continuous in nature. Time scale of the earth is in millions of years.
