ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioural Genetics, Gregor Mendel, Botany
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Understanding darwin: darwinian fitness= reproductive success, no inherent direction or inevitable result, evolution is ongoing, natural selection is just one mechanism of change. Natural selection explained how species change through time, but darwin and wallace did not understand the source of variation or how traits are inherited. Ideas of inheritance: darwin- blending of traits of mother and father, traits in the blood, examples in breeding. Genetics in anthropology: september 11, 2001. Using genetic information to identify similar to fossil remains: forced migration/slavery. Genetic information provides where they came from and where they ended up. Damage of slavery to dna: gregor mendel. Selected several traits with two variations each (pod colors, seed shape, seed coats, ripe pods, unripe pods, flowers, stems: the experiments. Pea seed color- pure strains or bred true, cross-bred pea plants with green and yellow seeds then crossed the hybrids: law of segregation traits are inherited as discrete units.
