ANTH 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Carl Linnaeus, Macrobius, Systema Naturae
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Astronomers estimate that the universe has been in existence for some 15 billion years- plus or minus a few billion. Charles dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theor(cid:455) of e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374): differe(cid:374)t spe(cid:272)ies de(cid:448)eloped, o(cid:374)e fro(cid:373) a(cid:374)other, over long periods of time. In the 4th century, plato and aristotle (greek philosophers) believed that animals and plants formed a single, graded continuum going from more perfection to less perfection. With humans being at the top of the scale. The idea that the (cid:272)reator ga(cid:448)e life or (cid:862)radia(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) first to hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s, (cid:271)ut so(cid:373)e of the essence was lost at each subsequent creation, was later added by greek philosophers. (cid:862)(cid:272)hai(cid:374) of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g(cid:863) i(cid:373)age: (cid:862)the atte(cid:374)ti(cid:448)e o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)er (cid:449)ill dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)er a (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of parts fro(cid:373) the supreme god down to the last dregs of things, mutually linked together and without a (cid:271)reak. The chain of being continued for years but was not discussed extensively until the 18th century. The chain of being did not allow for evolution.
