- Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has recognized the influence of heredity and applied its principles to the improvement of cultivated crops and domestic animals. A Babylonian tablet more than 6,000 years old, for example, shows pedigrees of horses and indicates possible inherited characteristics. Other old carvings show cross-pollination of date palm trees. Most of the mechanisms of heredity, however, remained a mystery until the 19th century, when genetics as a systematic science began.
- note: remember that influence of heredity was recognized much earlier, but not the mechanisms.
Winchester, A.M.. "genetics". Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Feb. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/science/genetics. Accessed 16 March 2023.
- Anthropology is the study of human lives as they unfold through time and across space.
- Anthropology is conceptually and methodologically extensive and thus is broadly applicable to virtually any topical domain.