ANT 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Bipedalism, Quantitative Genetics, Chromosome
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Examining human and primate variation through research and evolution. Dominant view before evolution? an unchanging natural world where species strove towards an ideal. Uniforitarianism the geologic processes that drive the world today have always done so (lyell) Lamarck certain species had gone extinct over time. Biggest contribution of origin of species synthesizing of information to document evolutionary change. Natural selection within a population, some variations are favored by environmental conditions and others are not; favorable ones are passed on to the next generation. Carolus linnaeus provided modern classification of all living things in binomials, including humans. Federal courts uphold the idea that? evolution is the unifying principle of the life sciences. Dna contains for ______ bonded in the center nucleic acids. Dna has a backbone of phosphate and sugar. Mendel"s experiments demonstrated what? traits inherited from each parent remained distinct in the offspring. Is evolution a fact or a theory? both.
