ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James Ussher, Carl Linnaeus, Binomial Nomenclature
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Phenomena: science and religion: different ways of finding a phenomenon. Creationism: public school curricula- teaching evolution in public schools, efforts have led to the emergence of scientific creationism or intelligent design involves super natural being. Variety of different ways species react to change in environment. Origins of evolutionary thought: people who set the stage: mendel, darwin (believe in change/time, before darwin: ussher, aristotle 4th century bc. Fixity of species, thought animals had no distinction of time. Great chain of being: god, angels, demons, man, animals, plants, minerals. Archbishop james ussher: thought earth was formed: a(cid:396)istotle"s (cid:449)orldview: 17th century map of the universe, earth at the center, orbiting. Mix in same group and new forms. Genus-(cid:396)elated, (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)e offsp(cid:396)i(cid:374)g: carolus linnaeus (cid:862)fathe(cid:396) of ta(cid:454)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:863) Came up with more classifications than john ray. Included humans in the classification system, wrong, because animal kingdom: classification: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species,.
