BIOLOGY 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wilhelm Weinberg, Genotype Frequency, Allele Frequency
6 Apr 2016
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Monday, september 9, 2013: wide acceptance of the fact of evolution: the publication of the origin led to a scientific revolution. Most scientists quickly accepted darwin"s claim that evolution had occurred: disagreements about the pattern and mechanism: there was, and still is, disagreement about the pattern and mechanism proposed by darwin. Darwin"s supporters did not agree with darwin"s claim that the pattern was always gradual. They argued that the lack of intermediate forms was also consistent with discontinuous pattern of change. Part of the attraction of discontinuous change is that it is not necessary to explain what advantages intermediate forms had. For some characteristics, such as the wing or a bird or pterosaur, it is difficult to know what advantage was conferred to an individual with a partially formed wing that is incapable of generating flight. Darwin"s theory thought that natural selection was not sufficient to cause all of evolution.
