BIOL 040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Carl Linnaeus, Heredity, Fleeming Jenkin
31 Jul 2020
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Unraveled way life in the universe came about, constantly changes, and adapts itself to changing circumstances. Linnaeus: systema naturae gave rise to question the taxonomy of biological species. At the same time new fossils started to appear. Linnaeus: classified humans in the same grouping as primates. In uk geologists began to look for fossils raised more questions about how all these layers of fossils had come about and disappeared. First observation: plants seemed to avoid self-fertilization offspring were on average less healthy. Cross-fertilization produced variation in the offspring more vital and sometimes resulted in the creation of a new type of flower. Struggle for existence in a world of limited resources was the reason why some variants had an advantage and started to outgrow the variants without that advantage: natural selection & survival of the fittest. One published at age 50 when warned that one of correspondents, alfred russel wallace, about to publish similar thesis.
