ANTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stratum, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton
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Fossils = physical remains of part or all of once-living organisms, mostly bones and teeth, that have become mineralized by the replacement of organic with inorganic materials. Species = a group of related organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile, viable offspring. Habitat = the specific area of the natural environment in which an organism lives. James hutton and charles lyell: uniformitarianism = natural processes operating today are the same that happened in the past. Demography: thomas malthus: essay on the principle of population , abundance of food would allow human population to increase exponentially and indefinitely, not enough food for everyone born, so population is limited by food supply. On the origin of species (1856, 1859 published: competition of discovering with alfred russel wallace. Assortment: genotype = pair of alleles that are inherited, phenotype = physical expression of allele, chromosomes = strand of dna found in the nucleus of eukaryotes that contains hundreds of thousands of genes.
