BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Folk Taxonomy, Middle Ages, Gothics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Explains everything that he know sin the world of the plants. It is the concept of superiority: scala naturae- (cid:862)ladder of life(cid:863)- a situation where- in creating this. What is it: summed up in a theory called essentialism, essentialism; essence. It is the unknown characteristic that makes each organisms unique. Slide 16: predarwinian and the natural sciences (400 bce- late (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) 400 bce 450 ce: greek and roman ages. 450-16th century: medieval ages: a major advent that made the beginning of the medieval ages important, we left leaving the gods behind, we have a only one god at the time calling it monotheistic ( judaic, islamic, Christian) very common to everthing: modification to the scala naturae. 16th -18th century: renaissance and the scientific revolution: darwin and the evolutionary thought (cid:894)late (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s (cid:373)id (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895, modern theory of evolution (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s prese(cid:374)t(cid:895) 450-16th century: medieval ages: there is a modifications to the scala.