BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Special Creation, Beagle, Natural Selection
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Body of knowledge that is known to be true. When it was proposed, it was highly controversial. Special creation is the direct creation of present forms. Evolution has no purpose. evolution happens under the apprioriate conditions. Evolution is an inevitable outcome, there is no plan. (2nd point). Gravity has a purpose to keep us on earth. He was the first to be used the term evolution. He got the theory of evolution wrong, he threw out special creation. He realized that organisms were related to eachother by descent. Darwin brought in the idea of the evolutionary tree. Linear view of the world instead of a branching pattern. Gametes are the only species that can pass generation onto the next. Darwi(cid:374) was pressured to go i(cid:374)to (cid:373)ed s(cid:272)hool (cid:271)y his pare(cid:374)ts. He got the job go go on the beagle (ship that went around the world)
