BIOA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Theology, Glyptodon, Sexual Selection
24 Oct 2017
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Global exploration raised difficult questions for unchanging creation : comparative morphology revealed structural similarities in dissimilar anatomies. Vestigial structures currently useless structures i. e. coccyx: fossils, stratification. Theory of fossil formation by catastrophe: jean-baptiste lamarck, hypothesized incorrect mechanism for evolution. Principle of use and disuse and subsequent inheritance: however, he made important contributions to evolutionary thought. Species change with time and pass on changes. Marine iguanas: darwin returned in 1836, becoming noted geologist, caught attention of charles lyell, first publication in 1839, married emma wedgewood in 1839, thomas malthus, 1838, clergyman & economist, an essay on the principle of population . There will be poverty and unemployment: malthus" remedy: Will lead to struggle for life leading to them having fewer children: darwin"s dangerous idea, influenced by previous teachers, discoveries on beagle & words of malthus, artificial selection , natural selection , caused him much grief:
