BIO152H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Special Creation, Creation Science, Falsifiability
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Introduction to evolution: origins of evolutionary thought, darwin"s voyage, evolution: facts and fiction, misconceptions, evolution as a theory, not a hypothesis. How did evolutionary thought evolve: the idea of evolution predates darwin species diversity fossils, geology. Life, evolution and theology: plato (427-347bc) philosophy of idealism, aristotle (384-322bc) believed species were fixed. Judeo-christian culture account of creation all species were individually designed and permanent: linnaeus (1707-1778) developed classification scheme to reveal god"s plan. Jean baptiste de lamarck: first to use the term evolution, first to provide a causal mechanism: Wallace: july 1858:linnean society presentation of darwin wallace paper, 1859:publication of the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life . The origin of species ideas: all organisms have descended with modification from common ancestors, the major agent of modification is natural selection operating on variation among individuals.
