BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Georges Cuvier, Erasmus Darwin

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

Document Summary

The environment modifies the essence to match the environment location. The temple of nature: life started in the ocean with small organisms, then grew into larger objects and colonies on land, the story of evolution. Catastrophic theory: biblical explanation, noah"s arc flood. Extinction: builds organisms from the bones he found, there are forms of life that disappeared. Instead of one catastrophic event, the world is infinitely old, life forms have been changing. Same species on opposite side of the ocean. All continents were all joined as one land mass at one time. Adjusts age of what was thought to be the beginning of earth. Bad science: didn"t understand genetics, organisms set aside a genome that will become sperm or eggs. All life starts out as a simple organism and the earth molds it. Trans-mutation (the change of a species: environment change a species and over time. Transmutation (not lamarck: the essence not species, generates a new organism.