BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carl Linnaeus, Carbon Cycle, Heritability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Natural selection helped moths with the color of the trees so they could hide from predators. Starting darwinian time (1700-1800) what we know: living things are there because of an essence. Georges-louis leclerc: writes 36 books on a group of organism. He notices that there"s all differe(cid:374)t t(cid:455)pes of (cid:272)ats (cid:272)a(cid:374)i(cid:374)es (cid:449)hiskers , the(cid:374) he asks (cid:449)h(cid:455) would there be so many diff variations of a cat. He concludes that one cat has been placed at 4004 bce and that when it moves all over the world, and the environment all of the world, will change/modify the essence of the cats. Erasmus darwin, dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s grandpa, translated linnaeus work into english, write the temple of nature poem. What he says, life started in the oceans as microorganisms, and they ultimately enlarged and became more complex, so what happened is with plants on land, what he"s got here is the story of evolution.