BIOL321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Linnaeus, Sociobiology, Comparative Genomics
29 Apr 2016
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Because of religion, there wasn"t a lot of room for evolutionary thinking when it came to biology. Natural theology was the practice of demonstrating the benevolence of god by showing biodiversity of life on earth. It was usually ministers who practiced natural theology, not men of science. Natural theologists wrote a lot of books, but less discussed was disease, parasites, and natural disasters because it didn"t make sense for god to punish innocent organisms. Natural theologians were afraid to suggest other methods of biodiversity because of fear of loss of morality. Charles lyell - a geologist extremely against evolutionary change, he wrote a book trashing. He thought it was possible for rocks, landscapes, terrains to change, but not in biology. He did believe that organisms could go extinct, but then they would be replaced by. After lyell, many other scientists followed suit in trashing lyell, and there wasn"t much evolutionary thought until 1844.
