BISC208 Lecture 1: Evidence for Evolution
19 Feb 2019
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Evolution by natural selection is one of the best supported and most important theories in modern bio. One of the greatest ideas in science. One of the five key attributes of life. Populations of organisms evolve or change through time. Charles darwin - on the origin of the species by means of natural selection in 1859. Radically different from idea of special creation. Life on earth is young ( approx 6000 years old) Explains a broad class of observations and is widely supported by evidence. Plato claimed that ever organism was an example of perfect essence or type created by god . Today philosophers and biologists call this idea typological thinking. Aristotle and the great chain of being. Aristotle ordered known organisms into the linear great chain of being (scale of nature) in which. Organized into sequence based on increasing size and complexity. Humans were on top of the chain. Some species were fixed types as plato proposed.
