ANTH 435 Lecture Notes - Paul Kammerer, Weismann Barrier, Peppered Moth
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Humans are the most perfect being on earth;! Until 200-300 years ago, there was no change to the scala natura;! Now, the scala is more dynamic due to philosophy of change (ex. catastrophism, uniformitarism, etc. Acquired characters - the organism/individual changes in response to the environment. Fluids and forces cause changes, changes are directed by the environment. Supported by french revolutionaries and the soviets (lysenkoism);! The soviets supported it because of the winter wheat (big controversy) and because of the cold war context (against the western countries);! Paul kammerer - midwife toad case;: saunders rumor of being a lamarckist, but she is just wondering what makes lamarckism appealing. Accepted that use and disuse of characters shaped an organism;! He has no theory of how inheritance works; Changes in an individual body are the result of use and disuse of characters.