ANTHROP 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rock Pocket Mouse, Glyptodont, Ontogeny

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2E03
• Professor: Dr. Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Goals of course: principles of evolutionary biology & human genetics, similarities & diffences btwn humans & non-human primates, major tnds in hominid evolution & origin of modern humans, influence of genetic, ecological, & sociocultural factors on biological variation. Biology: a natural science concerned with study of life & living organisms, including ir structu, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, & taxonomy, new species & inherited traits a product of evolution. Aristotle: scala naturae ladder of being, gat chain of being, a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als si(cid:373)ple to complex, complexity is ranked hierarchical. Linnaeus (carl von linne: psented a new idea of classifying living things, no(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:272)latu (cid:374)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)g li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g thi(cid:374)gs, ge(cid:374)us et(cid:272, life, domain (separates cells/ viruses), kingdom, phylum (distinguishes a nerve), class, order, family, Genus, species: kinky people can often find good sex, binomial nomenclatu, homo(genus) sapiens(species, h. sapiens, a. domesticus could be acheta or aedes, better to write full genus**