BIOL 04103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Darwinism, Special Creation, Anaximander
23 Oct 2022
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Favorable mutations are more likely to survive and reproduce. 610-546 bc: greek philosopher, life arose in water and simpler forms of life preceded more complex ones. Aristotle (384-322 bc: plato"s (very popular) student, species have immutable essences , i. e. , fixed properties, this philosophy was carried throughout the middle ages into. The idea is that god created each species individually. By the 18th century, discoveries of fossils indicated that there had been previous species on earth no longer found today. The desire and work toward change was what caused adaptation, not mutation (jean-baptiste lamarck 1744-1829) Lamarck hypothesized that the acquired characteristic was inherited by the offspring. Published: on the origin of species (november 24, 1859) Over time, the frequency of desirable traits in a population increases, and the frequency of undesirable traits decreases. Darwin"s terminology for evolution via natural selection. New species are formed as populations change. Darwin recognized that populations change over time via natural selection.
