CAS BI 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gene Duplication, Macroevolution, Exponential Growth
3 Jan 2017
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People who influenced darwin: carolus linnaeus** o didn"t believe in extinction o binomial nomenclature classifies species based on appearance and reproduction. First person to think about species and inter relatedness. Heat within earth leads to crust expansion. Lays groundwork for lyell o lyell uniformitarianism. Same slow forces that shaped the earth are still at play. Before idea was earth was younger than really was, changing environment, older than imagined so species age with the earth in general o jean jacques lamarck. He believed in inheritance of acquired characteristics. Giraffes, long neck to reach for food, passed on to children. Ex. if you lift weights doesn"t mean your kid will have abs. Proposed evolution due to natural selection and prompted darwin to release his work but wallace"s findings were not as detailed o thomas malthus. Exponential growth of populations versus the more linear growth of food supply.
