BIOA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Fitzroy, Botany, Biogeography

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA01H3
• Professor: Mark Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Natural selevtion does not have to lead to an absolute optimum in a particular trait. Evolution is limited and adaptions are often compromise"s. This means that most environments are having competition for selective pressures. No one will question genetics and cell biology, but people don"t treat evolution the same way, no matter how many theories there are. He was born in england to a wealthy family. As a young child, he was always interested in nature. His dad was a physician and he didn"t like the fact that darwin liked insects, nature and catching rats. During darwin"s time at school, there were different theories and ideas. The natural theology seeks to catalog god"s creation. Biogeography was also there and it showed the world distribution of organisms. Fossils and studying ancient organisms (paleobiology) started arising during this time. Darwin attended medical school because of his father. He didn"t like surgeries and had a weak stomach himself.