ANTHRO 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jane Goodall, Phenotype
15 Sep 2016
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Emerging scientific view: earth is old and species can change over time. Emerging views of evolution: when darwin came along, most people didn"t agree with these views at this time they agreed with the. Judeo christian views: everything emerging scientifically was considered blasphemous. 1809 1882 trained in medicine and theology. Common descent natural selection (modification: natural selection = mechanism that underpins evolution, some biological traits are more advantageous than others ex. When darwin was in the galapagos: darwin"s finches (finches we find over those islands) Noticed enormous diversity across those islands with the finches. Next generation have more people with larger beak and less with smaller beak. How diff kinds of living organisms have developed and diversified through time on earth. Giraffe getting longer necks, cheetahs getting faster. Gemules invisible individual particles being passed on which existed in male/female. This question really stumped darwin reproductive organs: ex. One red and one white and pass of blended colors to their offspring.
