Anthropology › Section D · Evolution, primates, and early hominins › Topic D.4
Evolution in action, past and present
The idea that species change took centuries to win acceptance, and its history includes people textbooks long ignored. Evolution is not only ancient history, either: human populations, and the microbes around us, are still evolving today.
In this topic
- A fixed and ordered world
- The seeds of change
- Darwin, Edmonstone and Wallace
- Natural selection and its misuse
- Worked example: Lamarck or Darwin?
- The forces of evolution
- How new species form
- Gradual or punctuated?
- Worked example: milk and human evolution
- Evolution you can watch
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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