ANTHROP 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Selection, Macroevolution, Binomial Nomenclature
4 Feb 2018
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Each subfield will take studies from others (four-field approach) Focusing on biology in this course, unifying principle is that new species are product of evolution, evolution is important key concept. Lamarck; creature evolved by developing traits over lifetime and passing it on (giraffe example); false, does not work, individual organisms don"t evolve. Survival of the fittest, evolutionary fitness is how suited they are to their environment. Natural selection happens at organism-level, gene that makes it altruistic can be more widespread than self-preservation. Evolution is a process of change, occurs over time. Change in living organisms from generation to generation. Lens through which we can observe many aspects of our species. Swedish naturalist, left scientist with system of naming by genus, caught on by wildfire, January 8, 2018 system has changed over time. In mammals there"s us in primate order. Domain separates non-cellular life from cellular (single-celled bacteria, etc. ) Family organizes us by apes or not.
