BIOL 1202 Chapter : EXAM 3 Study Guide BIOL 1202
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Chapter 22 decent with modification (a darwin view of life) Pre-darwinian theory of evolution: lamarck, use & disuse, bodies of living organisms are modified through the use or disuse of parts how it happened. Then they were finding fossils and they tried to come up with ways to explain this: Realized that these theories would have taken longer than what they said the earth actually was. Evolution in a historical context: figure 22. 2. Evolution by natural selection: darwin and wallace developed the theory independently, darwin voyage of the beagle, wallace british naturalist in indonesia, both predicted natural selection, darwin published his work before wallace. Darwin"s focus on adaptation: darwains finches, he found these birds on the gallapoghus islands. This is how he proposed natural selection, by studying the different bird beaks. They had different characteristics of their beaks to adjust to their diet.
