BIOL 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arithmetic Progression, Middle Ear, Emma Darwin
25 Dec 2017
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Overarching set of mechanisms and principles that explain a major aspect of the natural world. What can we learn from studying history of science with focus on darwin. Books: species plantarum in 1753 and scientific description of the human. Carl linnaeus (1707-1778) (cid:498)the invariability of species is the condition for order(cid:499) Best known for binomial (cid:523)(cid:498)two names(cid:499)(cid:524) species names, father of taxonomy. Jean-baptiste lamarck (1744-1829): (cid:498)inheritance of acquired traits(cid:499) to the environments they"re in drive lamarckian evolution to discard the concept of fixed species, he viewed species as populations of individuals showing variations. Second law: all such changes are heritable (can be passed on to the next. First law (from his book philosophie zoologique): use or disuse causes: continuous, gradual change of all organisms as they become adapted structures to enlarge or shrink generation) Born feb. 12th 1809 in shrewsbury, uk. Father: robert waring darwin, paternal grandfather: erasmus darwin, both medical doctors.
