Biology 1201A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uniformitarianism, Carl Linnaeus, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
30 Dec 2016
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The gradual change of populations or organisms over time, time measure in generations rather than years. The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms of history. Proposed that living species follow an organization. Ladder of being- cannot move up or down the ladder. Age of discovery (15th 18th century) Did not believe in evolution or that species changed overtime. Organized organisms for the glory of god. Animal > mammal > primates > homo sapiens. Question of vestigial structures: parts of body without important function. Similar vestigial structures relate to ancestry and the evolution of living things (cid:858) Fossils in different geological layers represent organisms that had lived at successive times in the past. Catastrophism: sudde(cid:374) e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts i(cid:374) the earth(cid:859)s crust (cid:449)iped out (cid:373)a(cid:374)y species at o(cid:374)ce, flood research, different species would be created anew resulting in a different set of fossils.
