Biology 1201A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: House Mouse, Bonobo, Carl Linnaeus
4 Apr 2020
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Evolution: the gradual change of populations or organisms over time the history of the earth. How different kinds of living organisms have developed and diversified from earlier forms during. Historical and continued evidence supports the validity of the theory. 16. 1a the early view is that life is unchanging. Each organism on earth occupies a specific step on the ladder that leads from the non- living world at the bottom up ever-increasing levels of complexity: minerals, algae, plants, invertebrates, vertebrates, humans. European beliefs - 1490: biblical account of creation to arrive at a view of the natural world in which: The human body was divinely created, perfect and correct. Europeans merged aristotle"s classification system with the. At the time, biological research was dominated by natural theology. They discovered the other part of the world, and other organisms. Carolus linnaeus: organisms had been specially created by god, species could never change or become extinct, new species could never arise.
