ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homo, Carl Linnaeus, Georges Cuvier

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Native to forests in republic of congo. History of evolutionary thought: the scientific revolution, precursors to the theory of evolution. Evolution is a linear trend towards complexity: great chain of being. Orders from least perfect beings to perfect beings: evolution is not so linear, not tree like, not linear progression, more like a bush with multiple starting points and multiple branching off paths. Change in the genetic structure of a population. Belief during middle ages: universe is static: fixity of species. Argument from design: plan of universe = god"s design. Analyzed parts of genesis to conclude that earth was created on october 23, Looked at the human eye and used it as proof behind argument that there must be a greater being so come up with such a complex design. Light enters eye through transparent opening through a diaphragm called the iris (controls amount of light coming in)

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