Anthropology 1026F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Hutton, James Ussher, Age Of Enlightenment
23 Oct 2018
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Chapter 2 - the development of evolutionary theory. Greek philosophers (idea: everything exists as it always had, fit with what pe experienced themselves due to the short length of human life compared to tim. Separated human perceptions of nature into two aspects: material obj apparent to senses, senses variable and subject to change. Forms could only be perceived by the mind, perfect and unchange regard. Great chain of being - the history of animals 350 bc. Insisted that all things exist in a fixed position for all time. Christianity was the only truth - heresy punishable by death. Argument from design: structures were created by god to meet the purpos they were required. Aeer vide heory hat people had d to time) aterial objects hangeable in every he purpose for which (copernicus/galileo) ng the earth today have. Uniformitarianism - natural processes affecting the ea remained constant through geologic time. Father of vertebrate paleontology, professor of animal a.
