01:119:115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Binomial Nomenclature, Darwinism, Carl Linnaeus

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:115
• Professor: Daniel Stern Cardinale

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Darwin"s definition of evolution: descent with modification. A. 1. all species are descents of ancestral species. Ii. (western) pre-darwin ideas: aristotle (384-322 bce) A. 1. b) species follow the rungs of a ladder (different levels of complexity) (a. 1. b. 1) (a. 1. b. 2) you get more complex as you go up the ladder involved no evolution (a. 1. b. 2. a) nothing to state that species evolved. Static- no evolution, speciation, extinction: judeo-christian cultures. B. 1. a) individual bases interest in science off of religion (b. 1. a. 1) belief in presence of creation and god but there is a scientific explanation behind the mechanism for creation. Led to natural theology: discover god"s plan by studying nature: carolus linnaeus (1707-78) C. 3. b) everything on this earth is a binomial nomenclature (c. 3. b. 1) humans are homosapiens. Still in use rungs of ladder in a hierarchy natural, theological view. Prevailing ideas (in the west): (c. 5. a. 1) earth is young (c. 5. a. 2) species are static. Some began to question - age of earth, immutability of species.