BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: September Equinox, Northern Hemisphere, Adaptation
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Factors; climate: what sort of science do i do, contrast of eeb and csb perspectives, seeing whole organisms as adaptive solutions to the challenges of the environment, different environments -> different solutions -> biodiversity. Evolutionary biologists more interested in the differences between species and where they come from. Field course in vietnam displayed lots of insect diversity; number of species of insects is too many to count. He is interested in how organisms are structured to meet the challenges of their environments. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution; however, nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of ecology! Adaptive evolution is the result of interactions with individual organisms trying to make success in a challenging environment. The world itself is patchy in every spacial scale imaginable-global, regional, Habitat, micro-habitat (carrizo plains california: after particularly wet rainy winter there.
