AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heterozygote Advantage, Soltyrei, Apoyo Lagoon Natural Reserve
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23: limbs evolved from fins after fish invaded dry land. False: lobe-finned fish have the same bones you have in your arm. How do we make sense of our place in the world: religious and mythological answers to this. New ideas: hypothesis testing- testing to see if things are true (aristotle, natural history- aristotle founded this, aristotle- 1st one to study science. Geology: catastrophism or uniformitarianism: the earth is very old. The earth"s biota changes over time- plants and animals change over time (empedocles: questioning of ideas happened in (cid:883)7(cid:882)(cid:882)"s, (e said that it wasn"t a catastrophe that did that, proved that the earth was older than bible said. Canyon): uniformitarianism: lyell- studied erosion of farm land and it could happen on a large scale and it was natural (grand. Jean baptist lamarck: over time animals change physically to be better and pass to offspring due to environmental changes.
