BIOL 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Coevolution, Herbivore, Amphiprioninae
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Lecture 31: cicero and aelian said humans should learn friendship from nature. Natural theology followers accepted assumptions underlying hobbesian view (nature is full on conflict and selfishness) But they also though that nature had laws to prevent disorder and disharmony. Each species had a specific place in the hierarchy of being, and it was also a system of economic interdependence and mutual assistance. Higher up creatures depend on lower scale creatures for survival. Beneden was a catholic who believed that evolution was the design by the will of god, and mutualism was an example of adaptions created by god. He opposed the (cid:862)struggle for e(cid:454)iste(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:448)ie(cid:449), a(cid:374)d (cid:374)atural sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) He wondered how larger animals in the world were fully armed and equipped for struggle just happened to be the ones that had perished in the struggle for existence. More examples of mutualism: sea anemone and clownfish.
