ANTH-UA 2 Study Guide - Hominidae, Natural Selection, James Hutton
21 Oct 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Attempt at understanding and ordering the natural world. Eidos (idea or type) - the only thing that is fixed and real. Observed variation is nor more real than shadows on a cave wall. Gaps in nature are real - represent discontinuities between types. Immutability of species - unalterable fixity of essence. Scala naturae - ladder of nature from god to dirt. Groups ranked according to elements (land, air, water) Each had primate - chief or highest ranking member. Primates - members of the order primates, c18. Introduced the order primates - the animal primate. First time humans are included in a mammalian order. Humans in hominidae; great apes in pongidae. Phylogeny - the history of descent of a group of taxa from their common ancestor, including their order of branching and their dates of divergence. Strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved - darwin, zoonomia (1794)
