BIO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gregor Mendel, Continental Drift, Natural Selection
25 Sep 2016
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Historically, most people believed life was created through the will of supernatural power: divine creation, many different creation stories existed, but for the most part everyone believe that: b. i. A supreme being placed organisms on earth b. ii. Organisms looked and functioned according to the design of the supreme being b. iii. These organisms followed the will of the divine being b. iv. What prepared our world for the shift in belief: a lot of different scientists and philosophers helped pave the way towards evolutionary thought. Anaximander (611-546 bce: greek philosopher, wrote on nature b. i. Put forth the idea of common descent b. iii. Introduced the concept of transmutation of species b. iii. 1. Transmutation new species develop from preexisting species b. iv. Life started as slime in the ocean before it moved to land b. iv. 2. Humans endured the transition in the mouths of big fish to protect themselves from earth"s climate b. iv. 3.
