ANTH-A 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beagle, Carl Linnaeus, Uniformitarianism
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Tried to be a doctor, much happier out in the fields, hated human anatomy etc. Voyage of the beagle- darwin collected interesting species, went by boat, main job was to keep the captain company, traveled to new zealand, australia, africa back to england. 1650- religious orthodoxy, creationism- world around us was created by gods. 1750- tried to describe the natural world, swedish scientist linnaeus attempted to describe all the living plants animals and give people a better since of the divine creation (god). Invented the system for species, genus, family, order. Fixity of species- a species could no more change its properties than a. Triangle could if a triangle acquired a 4th side, it would no longer be a triangle. 1802- william paley created natural theology, impressed with the complexity of the world. Darwin was no the first person to argue about the evolution of animals. Supernatural arguments: creationism- unchanging, young earth, a few thousand years old, animals were unchanging.