PSYC 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peppered Moth, Inclusive Fitness, Alfred Russel Wallace
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How questions and the features of a system, we are better at recognizing facial expressions in the upright position. The flamingo"s pink legs are thought to be camouflage against the sunset when they are actually due to a diet of shrimps. Georges-louis leclerc, comte de buffon (1707-1788): historie naturelle species. The environment acts directly on organisms through organic particles . Erasmus darwin (1731-1802) grandfather of charles darwin: zoonomia, or , the laws of organic life also: competition and sexual selection. Jean baptiste pierre antoine de monet, chevalier de lamarck (1744-1829) Darwin provided biology with its great unifying principle: the theory of natural. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and. Observation 1: organisms have an enormous capacity to overproduce. Observation 2: populations (with a few exceptions) remain remarkably stable. Deduction 1: there is a struggle for survival. Observation 3: individuals differ in their characteristics, and many of these differences are heritable.