ANTHR101 Chapter 2: Why is Evolution Important to Anthropologists?
18 Jan 2016
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Successful scientific theories are testable, unified, and fruitful (suggested by philip ketcher) Testable hypotheses can be tested in nature o: unified offers problem-solving strategies for many different forms of evidence o. Fruitful new and promising possibilities for future research/application. The modern theory of biological evolution is all three of these things. Charles darwin"s on the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859) changed the study of life and evolution. Evolutionary theory: a theory that states that living organisms can change and adapt over time, creating new types of organisms, while still sharing a common ancestry. Changes in fossil records when compared to current living organisms. Changes in fossil records (and living organisms) when compared from different locales o o. Greeks thought that the world was immortal; it has always been around and isn"t going anywhere. Christians thought that the world was young, and doomed to end soon.
