ANT 2511 Lecture 3: Anthropology- week 3
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Natural selection: malthus, in 1838 darwin read thomas malthus 1787 essay, a british economist regarded as the father of sociology. Wrote about contemporary social issues: populations increase at a faster rate than resources, populations checked by limited food supplies, discussed how individual"s characteristics effect segments of society and acts as a natural selection. Ex rich people are not affected by a lack of food resources but the poor do: darwin, wrote 2 manuscripts in the 1840"s but does not do anything with them. He felt as though he would be ostracized from society due to his unorthodox findings: religious wife (1st cousin, afraid to compromise his social standing, comprised and agreed to submit papers in 1858 at the linnaean. Fact 1 (from origins of species: all species have the capacity to increase population size exponentially if all individuals reproduce. Fact 2: population size is usually maintained within reasonable limits.
