ANTH 1001 Chapter : Anthropology First Day
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Tenets of darwin"s theory of natural selection the reproductive potential of a population is high but actual population size remains stable resources in the environment are in limited supply and individuals in a population with compete carl von linn . Carolus linnaeus - creationist promoted of fixity of species - species were immutable/unchangeable after there creation. Theory of the inheritance go acquired characteristics four tenets. Theory of catastrophism in the past they had a series of sudden and violent geological and climatic changes that periodically led to excitations of species in the effected regions. After the cataclysmic event subsided the area was repopulated by migration of similar looking but not identical species from neighboring areas. Theory of uniformitarianism forces acting today that shape the earth are the same forces that acted in the past. Principle of population population size increase over time while food increase linearly over time population size is constrained on the amount of food.
