ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Cytosine, Gamete, Inbreeding
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Works on population, not individual, species evolve. Group of individuals that breed and can have viable off springs off each other. May live in different parts of the world. Shared behavioral traits relating to social groups, food, reproductive strategies. (giraffes, different types wont mate) Distinguish between members of own species and others. Religion wasn"t for him; story in bible didn"t fit with world. Origin of the earth & there fore humans based on this interpretation of the bible. Uniformitarianism- natural processes that went on in the past still go on today. Buffon (1749 ad) to learn about the earth study the earth- processes are known, natural and observe 6 epochs. Hutton (1788ad) slow working uniform and natural processes=100000 years old. Lyell (1873 ad) 100 000 the present is the key to the past. Reverend chalmer- ussher was wrong not the bible. Kingdom phylum class order family genus species. Identified new peoples not mentioned in the bible.