ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Melanesians, Guanine, Cytosine
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A group of creatures which breed together and produce viable and fertile offspring. May be quite similar in appearance(deer) or quite variable(dogs) May all live in one part of the world (polar bears) or in many parts of the world (right whales) Share behaviour traits relating to social groups, food pe. Origin of the earth & therefore humans based on his interpretation of the bible. If only 6000 years old, then global and violent catastrophes to explain canyons, mountains. Buffon (1749 ad) to learn about the earth, to study the earth - processes are known, Hutton (1788ad) slow working, uniform & natural processes = hundreds of thousands of. 1800"s the question changed to how did the earth/species change? . Lyell (1873ad) 100,000 years the present is the key to the past . Reverend chalmer - ussher was wrong, not the bible. Identified new people not mentioned in the bible.
