Introduction As we discussed in class, early European naturalists and explorers has a great influence in changing the European views of the world and humans place ion nature (Lewin Chapter 1); the History Colorado Center Museum has an exhibit on Race, which features some of the discussions we had in class on our place in nature. The taxonomic classification of primates, especially the anthropomorpha of Linnaeus illustrations, paved a way for the Linnaean taxonomic classification of human, which was also influenced by the European view of the world of that time and became implicitly part of the anthropological thinking in the early 20th century on race classification, particularly in the US. As a student of introduction to biological anthropology, using some of the evidence and discussions in class, constructively using your anthropological …show more content…
Abstraction Brief History of Science Early European naturalists and explorers had a great influence in changing the views of the world and how humans are placed in nature. The pre-scientific view and the pre-evolutionary explain that the world is fixed and it is unchangeable; it is immutable. Alexander Pope thought of the Great Chain of Beings theory. The theory explains that there is hierarchical organization of life on Earth from the simplest to the most complex forms. The hierarchy organization also states that humans are top of the ladder; the theory doesn’t state that humans are top of the food chain or food ladder. We as humans are put above the ladder because we are complex creatures – unlike other creatures we tend rationalize in a complex cognitive matter. Yes, we are also emotional creatures like others in the animal kingdom, but we don’t rationalize based on our emotions. An example would be a hungry lion,