BIO152H5 Lecture Notes - Carl Linnaeus, Creation Science, Marine Iguana
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Lecture 2 bio152 tuesday, sep 13, 2011: origins of evolutuonary thought, darwins voyage, evolution facts and fiction. Explorers travelled and encountered a huge diversity of species. There were many similarities among species and it suggested to them that were some relations between all the prganisms that they saw. As geolgists were looking at landform they saw fossils that closely resembles teh species that were alive today. They thought that those species might have been our ancestors. Geologists also discovered that the earth was quite old. Buffon suggested that species living today were modern, he thought there was some ancestory but there also could have been some change that was occurring. Hutton looked at land formations and saw that it was not static, it was changing (geologist). Lamarck was credited with first using the term evolution". Idea was that if land forms were changing, life must be changing with it.
