ANTHR-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heritability, Selective Breeding, Primatology
23 Sep 2020
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Evolutionary theory underlies almost all aspects of biological anthropology. Any other questions that ask why different groups have different characteristics. Factors that set the stage why darwin and wallace were able . Traditional approach to understanding the natural world was based on classification. Geologists (lyell) had demonstrated deep time in the history of the earth and noted existence of fossil organisms. Fixity of species called into question (leclerc) Selective breeding of animals and plants was well-established. Animals and plants with desirable traits are bred with similar animals and plants. Functionalism (cuvier) based on observations that character traits were ideally suited for their purpose. Homology (saint-hilaire) indicated that functionally adapted characters could be derived from the same shared anatomic structure. Limits on populations (malthus, 1798) an essay on the principle of population. Developed in parallel by two english naturalists in the mid-19th century (immediately prior to american civil war) Takes him to the galapagos islands collects finches.
