ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gregor Mendel, Plants And Animals, Binomial Nomenclature
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A brief history of the development of thought on human evoluion: origin myths an explanaion of the origins of humans. All human cultures seem to have a theory of belief surrounding the origins of humans. How humans are the ulimate products of creaion: fixity of species. Accepted that all living things created by god. Believed that humans never change over time god created humans in which they appear today: great chain of being. 1stproposed by aristotle in 4th century bc. All animals arranged in a hierarchy that progressed from simplest to most complex. Arranged from simple organisms to the most complex. Importance is that is places humans into a coninuum with other organisms: genus & species. Saw that certain plants & animals could be disinguished from other groups by their ability reproduce with one another and produce viable ofspring. Placed reproducively isolated groups of individuals in a category called species .
