ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Linnaeus, James Ussher, Binomial Nomenclature
23 Sep 2012
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Found in the dem rep of congo. First new monkey species found in africa in 23 (?) years. Evolution is a theory, but this statement generally implied that evolution is just a thought and has no data that can support it. Term theory is often misused or deliberately distorted. Theory: something that can be tested multiple times and can"t be disproven. A hypothesis only becomes a theory when it"s tested multiple times and has never been disproven. If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? . We didn"t evolve from monkeys or apes as we know them today. Humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees 6-8 million years ago. Human lineage diverged from monkeys 20 million years ago. Evolution is a linear trend towards complexity. Evolution does not move from simple to complex. This implies the idea that humans are the most important or most evolved.
