BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carl Linnaeus, Genetic Drift, Selective Breeding
26 Jan 2020
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Lecture 3: natural philosophy to darwin: theories in evolution. Genetic drift: formed the foundation of evolutionary theory, all living things are connected in the tree of life , explains how patterns of diversity came to be, combined his ideas with the work of many others. When shelled animals died, they dropped to the ocean floor to be sedimented and turned to rock, forming new strata over the older layers. Stratigraphy: study of layering in rock: original view was termed natural theology: complexity was evidence of design. In natural theology, or evidences(1802), he describes the following: a person would draw different conclusions of origin if they were walking across a heath and tripped on a rock vs. a watch. Evidence of design = organization of parts + function of time. Engraving of fly eyes, robert hooke"s book micrographica (1665) Result of 17th century view on body functioning from a mechanical perspective.
