BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common Descent, Cell Theory, Convergent Evolution

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

Document Summary

He put together a series of books (36) on the history of the world that he had observed during his travels. He noticed animals in different areas of the world were very similar but had different characteristics (jaguars, lions and tigers, cougars). Garden of eden and as they disseminated out from their original site, the environment modified their essence so they would function better even though they were all the same type of organism. Published a book named zoonomia where he speculated on the type of organisms and how they may have arisen. The temple of nature he says life evolved in the oceans and that it was so small the microscope couldn"t even see it. Once the vegetation appeared on land, the organisms moved onto land. He collects bones and fossils and notices that they are creatures that are familiar to modern day animals. There has been a massive disappearance in the diversity on the planet.