Anthropology 1026F/G Lecture : Introduction to Anthropology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1026F/G
• Professor: Andrew Nelson

Document Summary

Self critical, limits bias, and is based on testing. Hypothesis is tested through the collection and analysis of data. After many tests hypothesis is changed to a scientific theory. Real genius was that he put together things that were floating around in intellectual circles. Organisms within any population vary with respect to each other and this variation affects their ability to survive and reproduce (variation that affects abilities of individuals to reproduce is what we are interested in) Some of these features which vary are passed on from parents to their offspring and these features are inherited. The ability of a population to grow is infinite but the ability of any environment to support populations is finite and this leads to a struggle for existence. Over long periods of geological time these heritable variations can accumulate to produce great changes in a population resulting in the origin of a new species.