ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antibody, Syphilis, Speciation

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Andrew Shryock

Document Summary

Evolutionary fact and evolutionary theory is part of our cosmology. Our knowledge of genetics and natural selection has developed out of conflicting cosmologies. It assumes that the universe and all living things were created by god. The differences and similarities we see among living things are part of god"s will. Using the book of genesis as evidence, biblical scholars calculated that the world was created in 4004 b. c. All human physical variation had to be traced to the three sons of. Linguistic variation originated at the tower of babel, and so on. Carolus linnaeus, the great taxonomist, worked within this cosmology. Catastrophism developed as an alternative attempt to make sense of the fossil record. Perhaps they were destroyed by floods, fires, and other natural catastrophes, after which god created new species to live alongside surviving species. idea of instability creeped into the idea of creationism. Evolutionism, or transformism, assumes that existing animal species evolved gradually out of common ancestors.