Natural Selection
Liz2013Weekly Study Field Notes
Field notes are a very important part of anthropological research. Anthropologists use their field notes to make records about what they are seeing and thinking while conducting research. For your collaboration you are being asked to make your own field notes, based on the assigned course materials. Each week, as you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video, you will create a new set of field notes in which you are expected to write down such things as important concepts, things that you might have questions about, or even things that you find surprising or interesting. Just like the notes that an anthropologist makes in the field, your notes must be clear and easy to read because you will be sharing them with your peers in the collaboration
Complete the following sections in the spaces below:
Elizabeth Bray
First and Last Name:
10/3/2017
Date:
Lab, the concepts of evolution and natural selection
Title of Assigned Readings (including chapter numbers) or Videos:
Reflections:
I have greatly reflected on the way we understand the outdated things, and the age of the earth. It has been a great pleasure to learn all these things on how old our old grandfathers and ancestors age.
Emerging questions/analyses:
What is natural selection, the process and how it occurs?
Why it would of great help to have numerous dating approaches?
Important concepts:
Natural selection; which is the differential survival and reproduction of people because of the variations in the phenotype.
The perspective of anthropology – which is the study of several aspects of humans in past and present societies (JAIN, 2011). Ethnographers are anthropologists who live with a set of people and carry out research about them, and often liken them to other principles and this is known as ethnology.
Charles Darwin propagated the term "natural selection", and likened it with artificial selection. Variation occurs within all inhabitants of animals (Driver, 2010). This happens partly since random alterations arise in the genome of a distinct organism, and progenies can get such mutations. Through the lives of the persons, their genomes interrelate with their settings to cause differences in traits.
Charles Darwin enhanced the theory of evolution via natural selection. Species that have features that rise their chance of endurance will pass those features on to their progeny (being stronger, quicker, and more dexterous) (Wilson, 2013). A slow and stable accretion of features that make a species more improved leads to completely new species.
References
Driver, F. (2010). Charles Darwin and the geographers: Unnatural selection. Environment and Planning A, 42(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42416
JAIN, R. K. (2011). Anthropology and Diaspora Studies: An Indian Perspective. Asian Anthropology, 10(1), 45–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2011.10552603
Wilson, J. G. (2013). Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin: Perspectives on natural selection. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 137(2), 90–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2013.10887185
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