BIO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Trace Fossil, Bog Body, Bipedalism
31 Oct 2017
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Darwin"s hypothesis: individuals vary, populations tend to over-breed, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, variations are inherited, new species develop. Deduction (prediction) 6: if the hypothesis of evolution is correct, then fossils should show evidence of change through time, eg. Deduction (prediction) 6: evaluation: many fossils of organisms exist that are no longer present on earth (dinosaurs, mammoths etc. , conclusion- life on earth has changed through time. Deduction (prediction) 7: if they hypothesis of evolution is correct, then older strata should have fewer modern species than younger strata, eg. Deduction (prediction) 8: if the hypothesis of evolution is correct, then the simplest organisms should occur in the oldest strata, eg. Deduction (prediction) 9: evaluation: data are no consistent with divine creation and data are consistent with: evolution, and multiple creations. Deduction (prediction) 10: if the hypothesis of evolution is correct, then intermediate links between fossils must exist, eg.
