ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Pisum, Mathematical And Theoretical Biology, Allele
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Book: the origin of science- louis leibenberg. They covered a very large spatial area --> ache men v. chimpanzees. A group behavior --> acquired by learning. Intergenerational (passed from one generation to the next; occurs during childhood) An explanation for the origin of organisms. Charles lyell (1797-1875) principles of geology (1830)- uniformitarianism 1838 read malthus essay-inspired darwin to conceive that competition for limited resources exists for all species-didn"t publish his idea until 1859. Book: on the origins of species (1859) Natural law: a natural process is responsible for the good-fit seen between an organism and its environment. Book: the descent of man and selection in relation to sex (1871)- sexual selection. Book: the expression of emotions in man and animals (1872)- behavior evolves. Evolution in an age of genetic information. Darwin was interested in inheritance but had no knowledge of it --> gregor mendel"s model of inheritance (1866) explained one source of variation.
