BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Black Death

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

450-16th century: medieval ages : single gods and angels and demons concepts. Scala naturae- the great chain of begins (similar to aristotle did but instead theres a god on top) Essentialism every single organism has a certain essence to it to make it what it is, this is passed generations unaltered, this is how the world is organized at this certain time. Species don"t change there"s and essence that allows the species not to change. Each species created on oct 23 4004 bce someone with a bible tried to track it down. Species are not old makes everything young due to back tracking and it hasn"t changed overtime. Happened once nothing changed, and someone put it there that was the though of biodiversity during the time. Concept of earth is short lived and everything arrived at once and it was found in the old testament. 400-700 early middle ages (dark ages) the rebuild of europe after the roman empire collpases.