ANTH 1001 Chapter : ANTHROPOLOGY
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Behavior and social organization of living and non-humans primates. Principle of fixity of species species were immutable/unchangeable after their creation. Provided the first explanation for how a species could change over time. Theory of catastrophism in the past, there were a series of several sudden and violent geological and climatic changes that periodically led to the extinction of the species in the affected regions. After the cataclysmic event subsided, the area was repopulated by migration or 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 cannot exceed the number of available food sources. Observations on the galapagos islands transmitted to one"s offsprings. or by the production of new organs. functional capacity. Also proposed the idea of species change by natural selection. Those with favorable traits will survive and produce more offspring.
