BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theophrastus, Genetic Drift, Great Chain Of Being

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

Document Summary

Darwinian: evolutionary thought, late 1800s to mid 1900s modern evolutionary theory: 1950s to present. Computer chip era: 1961, huge computers, did calculations. Fiber optics ear: 1980s data transmission, sharing digital info. Hippocrates: created modern medicine, in 325 bce collected notes from then biologists and accumulated them into one big book called the hippocratic corpus. Theophrastus: studied plants for agricultural and medicinal purposes and for fiber(woods, buildings) produced ten books dividing them on reproductive structures almost perfect division, his book historia plantum. 1300-1500 (late middle ages): black plagues, sadness, half to two thirds of population died. Artificial- no need for memory, organisms arranged according to simple everyday similarities. Natural- evolutionary, darwin"s, organsims arranged due to many similarities. Cladistic- based on presumed phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history. Aristotle: fixed characteristics, scala naturae, mainly studied animals. Compte de buffon(george luis leclerc) : 18th century, proposed vestigial (useless) structures exist because they had some function in ancestors of species.