ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: James Ussher, Georges Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus
31 Aug 2020
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Most cultures have creation stories explaining how they came to be. A different way of knowing the world. Thomas malthus (economists); different survival of offspring (struggle to survive) The world seen as fixed and eternal: a cow was always a cow and will always be a cow. Each species had an unchanging essence: the cow came to be as is. Based on the philosophy of plato (greek philosopher and mathematician) Based on degrees of difference, distance from divine perfection . Based on the classification of carl linnaeus (1758) systema naturae . Divided the natural world into 3 kingdoms. Calculated the age of the earth to be 6000 years, with a date of creation as october 23, He was very educated and he had time to study. Challenged catastrophism by suggesting species can become modified over time to suit their environment. Individual animals physically transformed to adapt and passed those on.
