ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Origin Myth, Consanguinity, Carl Linnaeus
23 Dec 2020
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Understand humans as whole organisms who apart to their environment through a complex interaction of biology and culture. May 1: origin of the milky way. Sept 9: beginning of our solar system. Sept 25: appearance of life on earth. Genesis: creation of the world in 6 days. Created separately and fixed for that state of being. Species could not become extinct their story on how everything happened. Classification by similarities and differences in physical characteristics. Found elephant bones, reptiles as big as whales. Found over 90 species, which disappeared from earth. Catastrophic events wiped out some species of plants and animals, which led. Individuals who change during their lifetime can pass along those acquired changes through inheritance to their offspring. Giraffes having long necks to obtain food. Those most fit to survive and reproduce in a given environment do so more successfully than others in the same population. Humans and apes share a common ancestry.
