BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jerry Coyne, Special Creation, Botany
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Bio120 - lecture 2 - darwin"s big idea and how it changed biology. Required readings: chapter 2 of why evolution is true by jerry coyne. Recommended reading: http://www. iflscience. com/plants-and-animals/new-species-human- discovered-south-africa: theory of evolution: living things change gradually from one form into another over time. A theory is a body of knowledge that is known to be true. Special creation = direct creation of all things in effectively their present form, challenged evolution: evolution involved two controversial ideas: Concept of a changing universe (not static) Evolution has no purpose (replaced view that the causes of all phenomena had to have a purpose: jean-baptiste de lamarck (1744-1829): First to use the term evolution (disregarded special creation, realized organisms were related by descent) Got the mechanism wrong: linear rather than branching view of evolution. He was always interested in nature and while at cambridge, he had the opportunity to travel on the beagle.
