ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Allele Frequency, Punnett Square, Genetic Recombination
31 Jan 2016
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The principles of science: there is a real & knowable universe, understanding something is not beyond their comprehension, the universe operates according to understandable laws, these understandable laws are constant & unchanging. History of evolutionary thought: living things were divided into natural kinds , the great chain of being. Based on essence & closeness to god. Everything is linked together in based on similarities & appearance a classi cation system called taxonomy: linneaus: began to sort sort species, which he saw as a natural kind , into. Genus: the level of linnean taxonomy in which different species are. Implied that god had made a mistake & was therefore not perfect. Transformism: species arise from others through long, gradual. Inheritance of acquired characteristics: the incorrect idea that characteristics that are acquired during one"s lifetime could be passed to offspring process of transformation: hutton & lyell: created uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism: the idea that the processes that created.
