BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: August Weismann, Germ Cell, Her Majesty'S Ship
12 Sep 2018
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Dr. wright will be here from 9-9:45am before the lecture for a tutorial. The open questions that were facing darwin at the time. Paley argued that because of the complexity and the functions of all the organisms and their adaptations specifically suited to their own environment, they must have been designed. To be deigned, there must be a designer. If the watch has a designer, then therefore the tree would also have a designer (because it is specifically designed" to function in its environment) This was a compelling argument at the time. However, darwin was not the first to come up with evolutionary ideas! His ideas and methodology were actually quite wrong and was not widely accepted. However, darwin would have been aware of his ideas, and he was the first to use the term evolution. First to provide a causal mechanism: the inheritance of acquired characters.
