SCILIVSY 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theodosius Dobzhansky
19 Jun 2018
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An#explanation#for#biological#diversity
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An#understanding#of#where#our#own#species#came#from
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!"#$%&'(&))*%+,"-.&/0)1234567)"nothing#in#biology#makes#sense#except#in#
the#light#of#evolution"
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Why#Evolution?
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Dogs:#genomes#virtually#identical,#but#phenotypically#very#different
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If#everything#is#so#much#the#same,#how#come#everything#is#so#different?
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Evolution#and#Development
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Approximately#7#million#years#between#our#most#recent#common#
ancestor#of#chimpanzee#and#human#lineages
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Great#Ape#Phylogeny
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June#18,#1858:#Darwin#receives#Wallace's#letter#from#Ternate,#Indonesia
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89:;#$)<(&	)=-99->#
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a#type#of theology that#provides#arguments#for#the existence#of#God based#
on reason and#ordinary experience of nature
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='99'-?)@-9#0
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A-B(;-9)!"#%9%C0
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Based#upon#the#belief#that#population#unchecked#will#increase#at#a#
geometric#rate#whereas#the#food#supply#grows#at#an#arithmetic#rate
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Proposed#this#only#for#the#working#and#poor#classes
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Concluded#that#"moral#restraint"#(late#marriage#and#sexual#abstinence)#as#
a#possible#check#on#population#growth
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D-B"(&:#predicted#population#would#outrun#food#supply,#leading#to#a#decrease#
in#food#per#person
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E#;+#;B)FG#.>#;7)those#who#reject#the#Theory#of#Evolution#because#it#is#not#
supported#by#facts#seem#to#forget#that#their#own#theories#are#supported#by#no#
facts#as#well
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Lecture'#1'Notes
Saturday,#October# 1,#2016
2:50#PM
