ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Chain Of Being, George Gamow, Null Hypothesis
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Lecture 2 notes : origins of evolutionary thought. Science: an approach to gaining information about natural phenomena through observation an experimentation: empirical - based on knowledge gained through observation, a self-correcting process - falsi ability is a key de ning trait of the scienti c process. The scienti c method: 1. observation and description of natural phenomena, 2. formulation of a hypothesis to explain a phenomena, with clearly-stated predictions that must be falsi able, 3. Hypothesis testing against empirical evidence (i. e. data: 4. If the hypothesis has not been falsi ed after repeated empirical testing theory. Null hypothesis: the assumption you start with, there"s no e ect or relationship. Vernacular theory : based on observations and facts but they are not being tested over and over again: ex. conspiracy theories. Scienti c theories: natural selection theory (darwin), general relativity (einstein) and big bang theory (gamow)
