BIO 1306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Speciation, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton
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A new era of biology began in 1859 when charles darwin published the origin of. The origin of species focused biologists" attention on the great diversity of organisms. Darwin noted that current species are descendants of ancestral species. Evolution can be defined by darwin"s phrase descent with modification. Evolution can be viewed as both a pattern and a process. Concept 22. 1: the darwinian revolution challenged traditional views of a young earth inhabited by unchanging species. Darwin interpreted organismal adaptations as evidence that the creator had designed each species for a specific purpose. Linnaeus was the founder of taxonomy, the branch of biology concerned with classifying organisms. He developed the binomial format for naming species (for example, homo sapiens) The study of fossils helped to lay the groundwork for darwin"s ideas. Fossils are remains or traces of organisms from the past, usually found in sedimentary rock, which appears in layers called strata.
