BIOL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Robert Jameson, Carnivorous Plant, Chagas Disease
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Darwin: darwin"s achievements, he made a convincing case for the reality of evolutionary change. It was not the first case, but it was the first case to be widely accepted among biologists. Wasn"t the rst good case but was the accepted one. Even his grandfather had a good case for evolution. In 10-20 years nearly all biologist accepted evolution was true. Change over was very rapid: he killed essentialism in biology. Idea that organisms are imperfect copies of ideal forms: he presented a reasonable mechanism for evolution: natural selection. Both lexmark and chambers had good reason to think evolution happened but didn"t provide good mechanisms for evolution to occur. A re ection of evolutionary thinking: life (1809-1882, all his life he was free of financial worries. Lived to see his work accepted and his fame grow. He inherited a lot of money, his father robert darwin was a successful physician and had a private large sum of money.
