Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hutterite, Phenotype, Zygosity
10 Aug 2016
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Genes, genetics, and their role in anthropology. Doing science : laboratories, excavations, ethnographic fieldwork, how we approach our data. Science as one way of producing knowledge. Evolutionary theory: living organisms can change over time and give rise to new kinds of species. What is seen now has always been seen on the earth: great chain of being, antiquity of earth. Cuvier: observed fossils of extinct creatures, and the appearance of new forms, catastrophism. Look to the environment to explain the appearance and disappearance of different species. Other scholars focused on identifying natural laws put in place by god: uniformitarianism. Geological processes observed in the present are the same as those that occurred in the past. Natural laws allowed for change that maintained the plan": no divine intervention required. Got people thinking that the earth could have been older than original thought. Transformational evolution: every individual is engaged in their own adaptive transformation, in relation to their environment, over time.
