ANTH-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Genetics, Mutation, Mendelian Inheritance
18 Sep 2017
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The set of testable hypotheses that assert that living organisms can change over time and give rise to new kinds of organisms, with the result that all organisms ultimately share a common ancestry. Pre-darwinian views of the history of life on earth. Biological similarities and differences originated at the creation. Characteristics of life forms were seen as immutable; they could not change. Carolus linnaeus (1707-1778): the first comprehensive and still influential classification (or taxonomy) of plants and animals (used the presence of the backbone-vertebrates/invertebrates and mammary gland-mammals/birds) The notion that natural disasters, such as floods, are responsible for the extinction of species, which are then replaced by new species. The belief that the same gradual processes of erosion and uplift that change the earth"s surface today had been at work in the past. Thus, we can use our understanding of current processes to reconstruct the history of the earth.
