BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Genetics, Falsifiability, Heredity
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Bio120 - lecture 2: darwin"s big idea and how it changed biology. Living things change gradually from one form into another over time. Challenges view of special creation (= direct creation of all things in effectively their present form) Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. - theodosius. Dobzhansky fruit fly geneticist and founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Proposed linear rather than branching view of evolution. No evolutionary tree, proved wrong by darwin. First to provide a causal (incorrect) mechanism inheritance of acquired characters (individuals evolve) Believed that changes of an individual over lifetime is passed onto offspring. Events leading up to the publication of the origin of species . 20 years after returning from the beagle. Accumulation of evidence for the theory of evolution. 1844: wrote but did not publish natural selection essay. 1856: began work on natural selection book.
