ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Binomial Nomenclature, Medical Anthropology, Common Descent
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Evolutionary biology in the scope of human and non-human primates. Conservation of primates in vanishing tropical ecosystems. Biological evolution of human and non-human primates. *evolution is not a straight line with direction. Societal, environmental, biological time factors influence health and illness of individuals at all levels. Religious fixity of species (things created in their present form) Think we are more special than animals (evolution doesn"t apply to us) Scala naturae (levels of evolution humans at the top) Earth >6000 years old; pressured by church to take back this statement. Founded biogeography: where things are found and why. Traits developed through use/disuse passes to offspring. Variety of living things and fossilized creatures: no fixity of species, realized young earth is false. If variety advantageous, may produce more offspring and in time, that variation would become the norm. Figures certain aspects of evolution and sends letter to darwin. Postulates for darwinian evolution: struggle for existence, variation in fitness, inheritance of variation.
