BIOL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Meiosis, Hugo De Vries, August Weismann
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Fossils show abrupt change: didn"t know what the change was though. On naval timber and arboriculture (1831: clear statement of natural selection and common descent. Natural theology (1802: biological diversity is static. The beagle: stopped at the galapagos islands. Down house: the voyage of the beagle, the structure and distribution of coral reefs, researched. Began evolutionary thoughts (1837: began notebook on species transmutation (evolution, the sketch (1842, the essay (1844) Origin of species (1859: argue common descent, natural selection. Pangenesis: all cells produce genules and travel to germ cells. The skeptical chemist: raised doubts about alchemy. Independent heritance patterns of different genes: 3:1 ratio. Biometrics: statistics applied to biological problems. Law of ancestral heredity: hereditary info from each parent. Eugenics: improving race by selective breeding. Principles of geology (1830-1833: 3 volumes, earth oscillates over time. Distinguished between germplasm (sex cell precursor) and somatoplasm (cells of body) Vestiges of the natural history of creation (1844: argues evolution of life.
