HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Aryan Race, Civilizing Mission, Jules Ferry
7 Mar 2016
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God creating the earth in 6 days. Second half of the 19th century there is a wave of realism in art, politics, and science those being just a few areas. Photography set the standard of realism, captures things as they are. All of the plants have the same parts but differ in character. Being alive is a struggle for resources (food) Suggests that there was species a long long time ago (millions of years, not 5 thousand years ago as the genesis account would suggest), then the species died out and this is what we find many years later. The different beaks on the finches evolved in order to match the food in their environment/on their island. It takes him a while for him to put it all together. He eventually completed and published on the origin of species by the means of. Natural selection and the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life, 1859.
