ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hominini, Carl Linnaeus
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What we can say about the human history from the archaeological record. How do the tools of archaeology give us insight into human evolution. The structure that we have for organizing the natural world far proceeds darwin"s the origins of species: linnaeus. Reason that his system worked is that he believed that he was rediscovering the mind of the creator. Finding god"s master plan: darwin stated that the reason that you"re finding this hierarchical system is because evolution works through branching. There is variation in the natural world. Thus you have a split and have two species who no longer breed together. Hominin: refers to all the creatures after the split from chimpanzees. Ardipithechus: we can"t use the chimpanzee model, we need to look into something else, contested. Argon dating: accumulation clock, accumulation of isotope 40argon, clock set to zero by volcanic eruption.
