ANTHR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beagle, Her Majesty'S Ship, Selective Breeding
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Went back to become a clergy in england. Took a bio class becomes interested in the living world. Was the man of science on the boat. Saw fossils that looked very similar to the fossils of living organisms today - evolution. Population size is limited by food and available water, hence struggle for. Favorable variations tend to be preserve; unfavorable, destroyed. The result is the formation of a new species . Selective breeding of animals to produce traits that we find useful. As long as there is variation among the offspring, limited food and heredity- evolution had to take place. On the transmutation of species (1842; 1844) The voyage of the beagle- charles darwin. Wrote about darwin"s studies in high school. Naturalist studying animal and plant life in amazon and southeast asia. Caught malaria and lost all of his notes. Came up with the idea of natural selection. In 1858 darwin and wallace presented at the linnenan society meetings.
