ANTH 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Intercourse, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Frere
26 Jul 2018
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Didn"t propose theory of evolution proposed an explanation. Began at university of cambridge (student of theology) Voyage of the beagle (hms his majesties ship) Began voyage (believer in concept of fixity of species) 5 years (1831-1836) Bones of extinct species of animals (cliffs of great age on coast, similar to living modern species that were smaller) Gradual change in same species of birds as moved from one environment to next. Size and shape of beak different (subtle difference) Observes each exploited different foods (what they were eating) Darwin concept of adaptation concluded: 1 ancestral species, modified by nature to fit into different environmental nitches absences of competing species. What you do (role), eat, etc job. Humans have a very wide niche (omnivores) Where you live, environment where you do that job. Principle of population: welfare for the poor of urban england tax rich to feed poor. Populations increase faster than food supply food increases arithmetically, population increases geometrically.
