ANTH 435 Lecture Notes - Lamarckism, Epigenetics

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 435
• Professor: Mary Pavelka

Document Summary

Mutation is not a satisfying explanation to explain variation. It is too perfect of an adaptation to be due to a mutation. The study of heritable changes in genes activity. Natural selection should have dispelled the idea of progressive path like. Natural selection predicts a dense bush with living descendants and extinct lineages. A more accurate depiction of humans" place in nature. The rapid acceptance of darwinism re ected its coherence, fertility, simplicity, and unifying power in biology . It is different from tness, tness is the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce. People perceived natural selection as a dynamic scala natura, but it is not that.