ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Natural Selection, Phenotype, Zygosity
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The nature of humans: lecture 3 professor michelle cameron. Recap : all included in last weeks" notes & on slides. In his late teens he went to university of ediburgh for medicine and then theology and decided he didn"t enjoy this so his circle of friends helped get him on their. Focused on documentation and chronicling everything went to brazil, south scientific expedition. Gaving medical knowledge and interest in naturalism, they selected darwin to be a companion of the captain of the beagle. American coastline, patagonia, stop in the galapalos, australia. Kept a personal log for his own recollection, what he observed in the natural world. In making these observations he was cautious about noting what he saw but not making assumptions or putting a narrative on it. Let it sit and ruminate, only letting it make sense after he returned. He looked at fossils and how they looked like living things from today, but with variation.
