Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Georges Cuvier, James Ussher, Natural Disaster

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1020E
• Professor: Alexis Dolphin

Document Summary

Explaining why we see the diversity we do. Genes, geneics, and their role in anthropology. Living organisms can change over ime and give rise to new kinds of species. Ixity of species; everyone put here by god to reproduce and populate earth. Essenial form of organisms that do not change. They are as they are and do not change. Understood things as a natural hierarchy of god. They were put there in an order and for a reason. James usher (religious igure) used genealogies to work back in ime and reason out when all the creatures were made (4004 b. c) Cuvier: observed fossils of exinct creatures, and the appearance of new forms. Why did god create organisms and kill then- came to the conclusion that it was a natural disaster and that other animals moved into the area. With the natural disaster there was a divine intervenion that created a new species (georges cuvier)