ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cosmic Calendar, Gene Flow, Spoonerism

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

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Understand human beings as whole organisms who adapt to their environment through a complex interaction of biology and culture. The universe is 15 billion years old based on astronomers. Carl sagan wanted to create a cosmic calendar . In the cosmic calendar, every billion years=24 days. Genesis: creation of the world in 6 days. Theological doctrine: great chain of being described a hierarchy: Each of these beings were created separately and was fixed in that state. This was accompanied by the belief that species could not become extinct. Classification by similarities and difference in physic characteristics. Naturalist studies which was the study of rocks, shells, animals, etc. Jacques boucher de crevecoeur de perthes (do not need to know for the exam) Made it easier for critics to argue that the tools were placed by chance. At this time, they had no understand of the earth"s age.