Biology 1201A Lecture 1: lecture 1 history of evolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 1201A
• Professor: Vera Tai

Document Summary

Purpose historical development of evolutionary thought development of theory to explain evolution, evidence, falsifiability framework for understanding modern biology road map for this course. Aristotle proposed that all the life he experiences is in an order. "scala naturae" (great chain of being) stone -> flame -> plant -> beast -> human -> heaven -> angel -> god nothing could go up or down the ladder his way of thinking lasted 1000+ years. Leonardo da vinci (1940s) he portrayed through art that the human body was divinely created, perfect and correct. Thoughts about the world in the 1940s the world was a few thousand years old species were created separately and organized into an unchanging hierarchy, ladder of life humans positioned just below the angels. 18th century (1700s) people began thinking maybe life might not have been fixed since creation -> life has cha.