BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Woolly Mammoth, Common Descent, Cytochrome C

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

Document Summary

Topic 2: darwinian thought (18th and 19th centuries) Embarks on a monumental project to create a three-volme encyclopedia of the world:inanimate world,plants and animals. Gets 36/50 don,another 8 published after death. Histoire naturelle is one of the most comprehensive looks at the world of animals for its time. He started to recognise around the world,there were animals with similar morphology but they were adapted to where they were living. He gives the idea of things have changed with time and they have changed according to where they are. Leclerc also does some experiments in alchemy and metallurgy and proposes that the earth started off as a molten mass that cooled. Because the north and south poles of the planet are cooler he felt that they represent the first habitable locations of the planets. And this is where all the living forms appeared on earth each with a unique essence.