PCB 4674 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Uniformitarianism, Thomas Robert Malthus, William Thomson, 1St Baron Kelvin
14 Apr 2018
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Use and disuse leads to developmental changes and acquired characteristics are inherited. All acquisitions and losses are from environment and predominant use of organ. New lineages are constantly being created from bacteria/life low on gcob. If you don"t know that by this point, i wish you luck. What did darwin do on the hms beagle. Darwin joined this voyage to south america as a naturalist. Dug fossils, collected animals and plants, took notes. Read lots of books he brought, like lyell"s principles of geology and malthus"s principles of populations. Determined that malthus"s ideas also apply to animals. Reached galapagos islands where each island had the same species, but they varied greatly from each other. (finches and tortoises). Wrote the principles of geology, which heavily inspired darwin. Wallace found the same realization as darwin before darwin published it. He was about to publish his research, but was a bro and let darwin publish his.
