ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Egg Cell, Heredity, Allele Frequency
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A brief history of the development of thought on human evolution: origin myths. All human cultures seem to have a theory of belief surrounding the origins of humans. How humans are the ultimate products of creation. May differ in terms of explanation however: fixity of species. Accepted that all living things created by god. Primary theory or origin myth in european culture. Belief that humans haven"t changed over time. Creationism remains for a long time: great chain of being th century bc proposed by aristotle in 4 st. All animals arranged in a hierarchy that progressed from simplest to most complex. Aristotle positioned humans in a continuum of other organisms/animals. But aristotle still adheres to idea of creationism/fixity of species: genus & species. Saw that certain plants & animals could be distinguished from other groups by their ability reproduce with one another and produce viable offspring. Placed reproductively isolated groups of individuals in a category called species .
