BSC 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sympatric Speciation, Ecosystem Ecology, World Health Organization
29 Aug 2016
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In the 1960s, the world heath organization (who) began a campaign to eradicate the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. It used ddt, to which some mosquitoes have evolved resistance. In the mid-17003s, the study of fossils began to take form as a branch of science. Suggested that the earth might be older than 6,000 years old. Observed similarities between fossils and living species. Suggested that organisms evolved by the process of adaptation. In december 1831, darwin left great britain on the hms beagle to explore the world. The geographic distribution of organisms on the gal pagos islands. The fact that gal pagos organisms resembled those in south africa. Darwin was strongly influenced by the writings of geologist charles lyell* Darwin would apply lyell"s principle of gradualism to the evolution of earth"s life. *charles darwin"s on the origin of species by means of natural selection was published on november 24, 1859. Darwin argued that contemporary species arose from ancestors.
