ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Hominidae, Pea, Comparative Anatomy
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What is a species? a group of creatures that can breed together and can produce viable and fertile offspring. Species may be quite similar in appearance (eg: deer) or quite variable (dogs) He boarded the sms beagle that he. Tried to figure out the origin of the world calculating the age of the earth using the generations in the bible. He found the earth around 6000 yrs old. Geologist who found strange morphologies of rock and to this he decided that there were massive catastrophes that occurred in the past to create rivers, mountains, etc. Reverend burnet you can see processes in action (not necessarily catastrophic) they are just slow (such as erosion) People come up with ideas but were scared of heresy. Def"n: the processes that work on the planet in the past also occur today. Buffon: there were 6 different epochs in the world but he was forced. Hutton: world was probably 100,000"s of yrs old.
