BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Pelvis, Weight-Bearing, Arrector Pili Muscle
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Outcome of phenomenon have to have a goal. Origins of evolutionary thought: 1700"s: compte de buffon - supreme being of god that created but suggested that time modififed and changed them, 1700"s: hutton: gradualism earth showed changes over time, river would eat away of rocks . World not static: 1800"s: voyage of the beagle - darwin. Jean-baptiste de lamarck (1744-1829: first to use the term evolution (change, first to provide a causal mechanism: provide mechanism how evolution occurred, many naturalists and geolists that talked about changes but none explained how changes occurred. The inheritance of acquired characters : characteristics that they needed they would aquire, lifestyle how offspring will be. Evolution: lamarck: occurred by inheritance of acquired characteristics (giraffe longer necks) you aquire during your lifetime may be passed on to offspring. Individuals passed on to offspring body and behavior changes acquired during their lifetime. Lamarack evolution produces a ladder of life bacteria spontaneously occurred,
