EEMB 131- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 109 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Sam sweet, 1124 noble hall; oh: thursday 11-12, 1-2, or by appointment sweet@lifesci. ucsb. edu. Adaptation, speciation radiation, extinction (timescales) <1 to 10^3 years. Biology has more degrees of freedom than chemistry and physics, so harder to predict a trend/ principle. Strong idea to not deviate the study of evolution away from the book. But as europeans began to explore the rest of the world, they discovered new species tha weren"t covered in the book of genesis. See separate creation in different continent and at different time. Grouped organisms by similarity of characteristics and creatures. Influenced by the views of malthus (1798) on human ecology. Observed that population growth is inevitable whenever condition improved. It is impossible that there are the right amount of people living in the right amount of space with the right amount of researches. Argued that the economy of nature wasn"t harmonious. An arms race of adaptation that led to both speciation and extinction via natural selection.
