2006-06-23 04:11:33 · 11 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Mesopotamia (Iraq)the initial condition and location of civilization?
2006-06-23 04:50:35 · update #1
Charles Darwin was wise enough to steer clear of anthropology, despite suggestions to the contrary.
He did however discuss artificial selection (of pigeons) in detail, using it as a time-compressed analogy of natural selction. So if you consider breeds of domestic animals similar in origin to races, then that's about as far as he got.
Remember, in Darwin's day there was as yet no concept of genetics (not until the popularization of Gregor Mendl's work, 30 years later).
2006-06-23 04:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Darwin himself, directly in his own writings?
No, his own views on race are self contradictory and have a fairly typical Victorian upper crust bias.
Does modern evolutionary theory explain how different races came about? Yes, its a simple concept endemic-ism.
The idea that local variations in environment produce local variations in phenotypic characters.
2006-06-23 04:21:34 · answer #2 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know..
Maybe different races evolved with the different climates they were in..
Like dark skin hot climates and white skin colder climates..?
They have said of late on a documentary on t.v. that they think all races originated somewhere in Africa then migrated slowly to other areas, where they had to adapt to other climates and their skin colour slowly changed and evolved over time..
2006-06-23 04:25:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thought adaptation, which undergoes when a group of animals is separated from the main point of breeding, and is forced to live in areas different from what they came from, so the undergo changes that suit their new lifestyle and help them survive
2006-06-23 04:16:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. Darwin did not posit that races were (are) distinct in an evolutionary sense.
2006-06-23 10:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by behscientist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indirectly he did. He did not right this but from his philosophy of natural selection and fitness he proved how races came about.
2006-06-23 05:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by answerman abc123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
darwinism is used to explain race but i can't recall him ever writting about it
2006-06-23 04:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by onapizzadiet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, natural selection explains it.
2006-06-23 04:15:23 · answer #8 · answered by codrock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no .....and this one is the demerit of this theory....so the modified form is neo darwinism
2006-06-23 04:29:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but try this link
http://www.becominghuman.org/
2006-06-23 04:28:07 · answer #10 · answered by Robert B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋