BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Special Creation, Honey Bee, Carl Linnaeus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Species came the way it is and didn"t change: thought till late 1600s. High middle ages: good stuff happened. 1300-1500 late middle ages: black plague happened 1347-1351, killed 2/3 of europe within 4 years, almost took 300 yrs. to recover. Arabic knowledge is stolen back into europe. Galileo knew he"s gonna get in trouble; didn"t publish works till he died: worked w/ copernicus. Van leeuwenhoek made first microscope: consisted of tear drop of glass. Harvey sorted out blood and circulation; lymphatic system. Linnaeus organizes the living world in a predictable way. Types of taxonomies together bc of similarities (patterns: folk, artificial, mechanical. Hierarchical classification taking large lists and breaking them down to smaller groups. Genus first word is capitalized (noun); second word is name.