L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Carl Linnaeus, Ape, Convergent Evolution
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During class time: review sessions: monday 7-9 rebstock 215. Come prepared with questions: emailed questions will be answered up until 5:00 pm tuesday, on the website there is a link to practice questions, term list, 70 questions. In his mind, he was describing the scala naturae - the scale of how sophisticated species are: bottom up arrangement of less perfect to more perfect species. Darwin didn"t see a scale of nature, but instead, a family tree: all species are related like members of a family tree, we now know that darwin was correct, we are one of millions of species. Eukaryotes, archaea, bacteria of eukaryotes, there are animals and plants and many other categories of eukaryotes: the family tree is enormously dense. We still use linnaeus"s general approach-taxonomy: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. There are more levels than these 7 (ex. Humans: kingdom: animalia, phylum: chordata, class: mammalia, order: primates, family:
