ANTH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Chain Of Being, Lamarckism, Mendelian Inheritance
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Describe evolutionary theory and evidence for evolution. Describe mendelian inheritance and compare and contrast discontinuous variation and continuous variation. Compare and contrast genotype and phenotype and describe their relationship to the environment. Evolutionary theory: the set of testable hypotheses that assert that living organisms can change over time and give rise to new kinds of organisms: with the result that all organisms ultimately share a common ancestry. Material evidence for evolution: evidence for change over time: Living organisms different from fossil organisms: evidence for change across space: Pattern of distribution of living species (ex: darwin"s finches in the. The belief in fixed ideas or forms that exist perfect and unchanging in eternity. Each species is characterized by an unchanging essence and separated from other species by a sharp discontinuity. The great chain of being (scala naturae): every kind of living thing is linked to every other kind in an enormous divinely created chain, challenged by catastrophism.
