ANTHR101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Population Genetics, Thermoregulation, Niche Construction

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Kathleen Lowrey

Document Summary

Cosmologies conceptual frameworks that present the universe as an orderly system. They often include answers to basic questions about human origins and the place of humankind in the universe. Creationism in the bible god took six days. Biblical view led to static, fixed view of plant and animal species everything was created perfectly to fit into its niche and was not intended to change: unlike evolution: scientific revolution. During renaissance, scientific dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)e(cid:396)ies (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ged age of ea(cid:396)th a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)it(cid:455)"s (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship to the universe. Copernicus and galileo earth is one of many planets revolving around sun humans are not the center of the universe. Scientific theory of evolution came about, derived from belief that the universe operates according to regular processes that can be observed. Fossils did not fit within time frame of literal reading of creationism. Some species may have survived like with noah. Uniformitarianism earth changed through natural, gradual processes that were observable: georges louis leclerc (buffon)