ANTB15H3 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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Lecture 1: the rise of evolutionary thinking and shifting. Forces: natural selection, mutation, gene flow, genetic drift. Human variation during the 17th and 18th century. Awareness of human (plant, animal) diversity emerged in the age of european exploration . The concept of human variation challenged creationism (all humans descended, unchanged, from an original pair) The world was the product of grand design. Typological thinking was the norm: variation was the product of imperfection. The earth was relatively young: humans existed independent of nature, major early approaches to explaining variation and change in the natural world during the 19th century: October 23, 4004 b. c. a revival of aristotle"s view of idealized living forms. One proponent was the french naturalist: jean baptiste lamark. Great chain of being: comprehensive framework for interpreting the world (including inanimate objects) Every kind of living organism is linked in an enormous chain guided by divine principles.
