ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Robert Malthus, Pisum, Natural Selection
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Application of modern evolutionary theory to studies of morphology, ecology, and behavior of human and non-human primates. 5 research disciplines in evolutionary anthropology: primatology: scientific study of non-human primates. Primate anatomy, field studies of wild animals, primate psychology, etc. Primatologists seek to conserve primates in vanishing tropical ecosystems (e. g. , mouse lemurs in madagascar). Paleoanthropology: multidisciplinary study of biological evolution of humans and non-human primates, advent of and changes in human cultural activities, evolutionary history of behavior in human and non-human primates: human variation: spatial and temporal variations in human features. 4 problems limited development of theory of evolution. Lack of knowledge on age of earth: religious concept of fixity of species. Lack of scientific method: religious notion of separate creation for humans and animals, age of the earth. In 1650, earth created on afternoon of october 23, 4004 b. c. Accepted because church pronouncements held as secular and religious law: fixity of species.
