ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James Ussher, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Robert Park

Document Summary

Organismims are related by decent through common ancestry. The shared characteristics we see in different organisms are due to this. A process of descent involving changes from pre-existing life. Studied the old testement book of genesis. Posited the beleif in the permanence of species. Species do not change over time, as all organisms are made in gods image. Due to limited resources there is a struggle for existence. Competing members of a species must ensure that they have enough food to eat when there are limited resources. The characteristics of an organism come from its parents. Charles darwin"s theory: all species tend to produce offspring faster than the food supply can increase, all living things show variations. Wrote on the origin of species to explain this phenomenon. Discovered genetics by breeding pea plants and other owers. Noticed that the variant colours of the plants petals. Determined that some genes are dominant and recessive. In the offspring, the alleles effect might;