SCILIVSY 12 Lecture 9: SLS12- Lecture 9 (92916)
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
After&the&Origin
(Exam&on&Tuesday)
Friday&(tomorrow&the&30th)&Review&Session&in&Harvard&Hall&201
Monday&4-6pm&Review&Session
The$Origin:$November&24,&1859
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Published
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Wallace& return&from&Indonesia&in&1862&a&few&years&after&The$
Origin$is&published
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Has&finances&due&to&his&book&sales
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Terrible& financial&decisions&lead&to&financial&hardship
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Wallace
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Born&wealthy
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Good&investor
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Darwin
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In&1881,&shortly&before&Darwin's&death&(1882),&hearing&of&Wallace's&
financial&plight,&Darwin&arranged&for&a&state&pension&for&Wallace,&for&
"services&to&science"
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Financial&Struggles
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Becomes&an&interest&of&Wallace's
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The&belief&that&you&can&communicate&with&the&dead&through&
mediums
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Spiritualism&was&a&way&of&filing&the&void&in&his&life&where&
religion&didn't&exist
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Wallace& is¬&a&religious&man&despite&living&in&a&religious&time/area
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Spiritualism
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Thought&it&was&misleading/confusing
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"Survival&of&the&Fittest"&-- coined&by&Herbert&
Spencer
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Preferred&"Survival&of&the&Fittest"
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Wallace& had&an&issue&with&the&term&"natural&selection"
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Survival&of&the&Fittest
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Use:&be&attractive&to&females
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Second&form&of&selection&operating:&(ex.&Peacock's&tail)□
Sometimes&sexual&selection&can&go&against&natural&selection□
Darwin:&sexual&dimorphism&is&driven&by&sexual&selection&
where
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Sexual&Selection
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Disagreement&with&Darwin
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Darwin-Wallace
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Lecture'#9'(9/29/16)
Thursday,&September& 29,&2016
10:09&AM
