ANTHRO 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Selective Breeding, Carl Linnaeus, House Sparrow
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Evolution of natural selection (the theory: organisms, unlike many kinds of things, can be classified hierarchically, hierarchy: recognized in c. linnaeus" pre-evolutionary classification of organisms (1700s) Either (1) non-overlapping, or (2) one fits entirely with the other: adaptation: organisms are characterized by organized complexity: they consist of many different parts that work together to accomplish recognizable tasks and (locally) reverse entropy, e. g. Produces high-frequency sounds, uses echoes to get information about objects. Similar to radar and sonar in its details and generalities. Central q - how do species originate? . One definition of species: a group of organisms that interbreed in nature and is reproductively isolated from other species. Definition 1 of evolution: descent with modification . Lamarck (1800) - individual striving and the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Influences on darwin to formulate natural selection (his original contribution: the mechanism of evolution an alternative to lamarckianism) T. malthus an essay on the principle of population (1798-1826)
