BIOL 2P05 Lecture 3: 3. An then came Darwin
29 May 2016
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Age 18 cambridge to become a minister. Recommendation of john henslow to go on beagle (1831) as an unpaid naturalist. Beagle round-the-world journey lasted almost five years investigated the geology and life of the lands he visited, especially south america, the. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. June 1842 darwin wrote a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages . In 1858, alfred russell wallace (1823-1913), a naturalist collecting birds, insects and mammals in se asia wrote to darwin describing the theory of natural selection . To prevent darwin from losing his priority in applying natural selection to evolution, lyell and. Hooker arranged for short papers from both darwin and wallace to be published in 1858 in the.
