ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deep Time, Thomas Robert Malthus, Darwinism
9 Aug 2016
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Hms beagle 1831 - 1836 (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Henslow is originally picked to go on beagle, his wife says no. Voyage of the beagle is a lot of his personal stu as well as science stu . Joseph hooker was a botanist science is dependent on the quality of the data (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Darwin had really good data by the early 19th century there is fossil, geological, oral, faunal, biogeographical, cosmological, chemistry, and physics data. Darwin knows his idea in the origin of species book is going to be a tough sell (cid:12254) his solution to that problem is arti cial selection = what we do to animals and plants. Darwin says it"s what we"ve been doing for a long time at that time pigeon breeding was a big deal, so he uses pigeons as an example. *read abstract from origin of species, on slide 41.
