BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Georges Cuvier, Vestigiality, Gamete

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

Document Summary

Naturae into a more hierarchical branching structure with its binomen associated with it. Concept of continental drift slowly being accepted by science. Everyone is making observations but no mechanisms. He believed that everything arrived on that day in one location: the. Garden of eden and then dispersed around the world. The essence of the that made cat-like organism a cat like organism was being influenced by the abiotic environment by which it was found. As organisms dispersed the environment changed their essence and modified them so that they are able to function in their new environment even though they are cat-like organisms. The change is brought about by the essence being changed. The essence can improve itself to match where it is living. Took linnaeus"s naturae and translated it into english. Poem (temple of life)-life evolved in the oceans,but it was so small that it was hard to see see using a spirit glass.