ANTHRO 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, Butler Act

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 105
• Professor: Dr.Richard Mc Farland

Document Summary

Any living organism is a product of their evolutionary history and their life history: evolutionary history: evolution looking back at evolutionary past and looking at a long sequence of biological changes. How everything has lead to our anatomy, morphology, intelligence, behavior, and culture. We"re a product of our evolutionary history: biological trait: Move from generation to generation and species to species. Our dna has the code for all the biological traits we have. At conception all our dna has been decided. We"re part of a much bigger evolutionary history that just that of humans: 4. 5 bya earth, 3. 5 bya life of earth, first primates 55 mya, 20 mya hominids apes and ape like ancestors. We are a hominid all of our primate ancestors are hominids: 6 7 mya hominins. Humans and our human like ancestors a chimpanzee is not a hominin.