GEOL 11042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homeobox, Georges Cuvier, Gregor Mendel
8 Nov 2020
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In the previous lecture, we looked at many ecological and environmental processes that affect how an organism or populations can survive and thrive in its (their) habitat. Today, we look at how populations of individuals that interbreed (that is, species) are affected through time. Focus question: which four mechanisms drive the formation of new species, background history of the ideas related to variation in species. Charles darwin"s 5 year voyage around the world as ship"s naturalist on board the hms. The book described how human populations increase at a faster rate than food supplies, and so when a population exceeds its carrying capacity, a famine generally happened. He published his book on this topic in 1859, on the origin of species by. Gregor mendel was a priest in the st. thomas monastery of the augustinian order in what is today brunn (brno) czech republic.
