ARCH 131 Lecture : Evolution and Natural Selection (Lecture 2)
7 Feb 2012
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Access to education: people are more interested in the world around them. 1700-1800: the skeleton of a dinosaur: familiar to the fact of the finding of an. Most struck by this: naturalist not reasonable to think the course of earth is not. A species is a group of organisms that is distinguishable from different. Leaving your home country, and see similar looking. I. e. elk in north american red deer in european lots of variation in. Linnaeus (1707-1788): took the idea of species and expanded it to plants and animals. John ray (1627-1705) came up with the species concept. Domestic animal breeds: see a new breed of cows. The higher you climb up a mountain, the more complex it is of the organism. Charles darwin (1809-1882) gone on a voyage with the captain: expose to different things around the world: 2nd year of university: has some sort of idea. George buffon (1707-1788) - keeper if the king s garden.
