ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, Conspiracy Theory
17 Jan 2018
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Some contribution of neanderthals to modern human population: catastrophism, georges cuvier (1769-1832, earth created and destroyed several times, criticisms of catastrophism, uniformitarianism, charles lyell (1797-1875, view of gradual change. Inheritance of acquired characteristics: lamarck (1744-1829, criticisms, but! Epigenetics suggests lamarck was not totally wrong: darwin, wallace, and natural selection, darwin (1809-1913, wallace (1823-1913) Alfred russel wallace: wallace: "on the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type" 1858, noticed because he was a collector. "every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species: wallace collected animal specimen types on order from rich curious europeans - killed lots of animals for his job. Noticed variation in all individuals: animated life of wallace clip. Mechanism of transmission: no knowledge at the time of genetics, mendel"s famous pea experiments worked out the mathematics and the principle of "independent.
