ANTHR 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Ussher, Ancient Greek, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Evolution has been going on for a while, but darwin was able to articulate it and describe it as a mechanism. Science: an approach to gaining information about natural phenomena through observation and experimentation. Everything we know about science is based off of tests. 3 hypothesis testing: theory theory: a robustly supported set of generalizations that allow us to predict what happens under particular conditions and why. Based on observation of factual events and collection of data. Attempts to explain how these factual events occurred. Theories are facts but can be fine-tuned and tweaked as more information becomes available. Sought natural origins for biological and other earthly phenomena. Notion of change: humans and other animals descend from fish. Concept of eidos an abstract form that is imperfectly imitated in the real world . Species have a defining essence that is fixed and unchangeable.
