ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthropoology Notes
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Great chain of being: natural world. Fixity of species: once life forms were created, they didn"t change: political systems. 14th 18th centuries: renaissance and enlightenment, technological advances, exploration diversity, darwin"s influences, carlus linnaeus. Environment can influence living organisms: lamarck. First person to attempt to explain how an organism could change. Inheritance of acquired characteristics (lamarckism): characteristics that are acquired during an individual"s lifetime can be inherited by his or her offspring: use-disuse theory, example: giraffe"s neck. Catastrophes, that would cause mass extinctions and those areas affected would be repopulated by species from other regions: lyell. Uniformitarianism: geological processes at work in the past are also at work today; as a result of these processes, the landscape is always changing; the earth is very old (deep time geologic time scale) Amassed a lot of data to forward these ideas: malthus. Population size can be limited by resources: alfred wallace.
