ANTH 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, James Ussher, Central Dogma Of Molecular Biology
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Geocentrism: earth is at the center of universe (ptolemy)/aligns with bible. Static world view: world had not changed since 7th day of creation; fixed. Homeocentrism: idea that man was noblest creation of creator; archetype of perfection, crowning glory of god. Limits to think of of reasoned and revealed knowledge (scripture) Came to the conclusion that the earth was several hundred thousands years old. So far, some central classical and renaissance themes have begun to crumble. Geocentrism, the ptolemaic view, is challenged and displaced by the copernican view. Static world view challenged by hutton, lyell, smith, and others (uniformitarianism) Approaches of lyell and ussher signal the transition from reasoned/revealed to observation and experiment . Just as lyell"s uniformitarianism had shattered the static world view, discoveries by de perthes, Lamarck, and cuvier would challenge the age of humankind and begin the reinsertion of man into. Believed generations inherited traits they picked up during life.
