BIOL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wisdom Tooth, Apicomplexa, Plasmodium
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Today"s material: what is evolutionary biology, examples of evolution in action, history of evolutionary biology. What is known and what is not known: processes that are used. Deaths were caused by tb, pneumonia, meningitis, typhoid fever, syphilis, cholera: after 1950"s: most u. s. patients die of cancer, heart disease, discovery of antibiotics in the late 1920"s and development of antibiotic therapies in the. We can observe the evolution occuring over years or over months! In the last few decades we have witnessed the emergence of new diseases, such as hiv- Systema naturae (1735: james hutton (1726-97) & charles lyell (1797-1875, geologists, principle of uniformitarianism. The present is the key to the past : observations of geology can and should be explained Catastrophists - look at the grand canyon and say clearly the creator made a massive flood and the water carved the grand canyon.
