CAS BI 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Macroevolution, Microevolution
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What is science?---everything that matters: derived from a court case (mcclean v. school board, guided by natural law (gravity, all science must be explained by natural law, testable against empirical world, conclusions are tentative, falsifiable. The cambrian explosion doushantuo fossils: thought to be eukaryotic, evidence suggested the fossils were sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, supported they were eukaryotic embryos, neither animals nor embryos, science is tentative and falsifiable. Charles darwin: father of evolution, wallace also founded evolution, raised by a wealthy family, dropped out of med school cause he hated it, boarded the beagle at 22, returned after 5 years and published origin of.