ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Plasmodium Falciparum, Sickle-Cell Disease, Allele Frequency
17 Apr 2017
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Paradigm-an overarching conceptual framework or tradition. (hypothetico - deductive model in textbook pg29) Natural selection 4 main tenets (see page 43, text) 1844 nook vestiges of the natural history if creation chambers. Mechanism of natural selection (charles darwin and alfred wallace. All individuals vary- size, intellect, behaviour, speed, health, prowess etc. Some of this variation is heritable(passing on to offspring) All populations reproduce at rates in excess of resources-(aka more bodies needing food and water for survival than there is available) basic things that you need to survive. Competition for resources occurs among individuals within populations-competing for food water and mates. Ex galapagos finches, strain of bacteria that have become resistant to standard antibiotics. Tb is now on a high because it has become resistant to the antibiotics that exitst. !1 bacteria resistance inhumans: malaria in plasmodium falciparum mosquito and sickle-cell anemia. more likely to live to an older age if you have sickle cell and malaria.
