ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carl Linnaeus, Industrial Revolution, Cosmic Calendar

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Holism- understand human beings as whole organisms who adapt to their environment through a complex interaction of biology and culture universe is 15 billion years old. 17th and 18th century: genesis story was accepted. The great chain of being: hierarchy: spiritual being > humans > animals > plants > rocks, created separately, fixed in their specific state of being, could not become extinct. Linneaus accepted that species were fixed by god but created the classification system (not thinking in terms of common ancestry: classification by similarities and differenes in physical characteristics creationism: belief in biblical creation. 18th/19th century started change of thought about creationism industrial revolution unearthed fossils in the ground, many unfamiliar fossils that were no longer around at that time. Jacques boucher de crevecoeur de perthes discovered many similarly chipped rocks (maybe used for human trappings: presented his findings suggesting there were people living before creationist history, shamed by french critics.