ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georges Cuvier, Darwinism, Local Property
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Scopes trial- john scopes defined a new tennessee law outlawing the teaching. Invented the form of biological taxonomy- system of classification (kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,species) Supported ancient view that species were natural kinds, each of which had its own essence - a view known as essentialism. View that natural kinds were arranged by the creator in the great chain of being. Did not support ideas of organic evolution. Studied fossils of mastodons, elephants, giant ground sloth. Periodic revolutions had befallen the earth: each wiped out. Wrote principles of geology ( 1830-33) the most influential geological work of the. Uniformitarianism the earth was shaped entirely by slow moving forces acting over a long period of time. A form of rationalist biology that developed in the late 18th and early 19th. Natural theologians compared the book of nature to the bible. Some natural theologians borrowed ideas from cuvier. Charles lyell"s views are a form of natural theology.
