ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georges Cuvier, Biological Anthropology, Uniformitarianism
20 Oct 2015
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A group of creatures which breed together and produce viable and fertile offspring. Might be very similar to one another in appearance. Share behavioral traits relating to social programs, food preferences. Enlightenment period origin of earth and therefore human based of his interpretation of bible. Archbishop ussher- based on genesis, made on october 23rd 4004 bc adam and eve. First to come up with seven basic layers, invented binomial system. Natural selection: variation already exists between individuals of the same species allows for adaptations. Increases the frequency of that trait within the pop/species. Colonization- identified new people not mentioned in bible. Changes occurs as adaptation of local environment. Cross bred green peas with green peas- offspring always had green peas. Cross bred yellow peas with green peas- all offspring were green peas. Genotype- all of the genes in an individuals. Most physical traits are represented complex association of several different areas.
