ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Binomial Nomenclature, Plants And Animals, Uniformitarianism
12 Apr 2014
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A brief history of the development of thought on human evolution: origin myths. All human cultures seem to have a theory of belief surrounding the origins of humans. How humans are the ultimate products of creation. Every human culture has its own human myth, may differ between detail but have a similar reason for where we came from, what the relationship between animals. Every cross culture myth humans are the most important: fixity of species. Accepted that all living things created by god. First believed humans never evolved and that the way we are now is how we we"re created, by an ultimate being (god), believed for a very long time: great chain of being. 1st proposed by aristotle in 4th century bc, still believed in fixity/creationism , but started to believe in a continuity. It places humans within a continuum with other organisms/ animals. All animals arranged in a hierarchy that progressed from simplest to most complex.
