DANCEST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Allopatric Speciation, Chemical Heart, Heredity
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Workings of nature and variety of life were re-imagined in ways that underlie all modern biology. Wider implications of these ideas still provoke controversy. Charles darwin on the origin of species by means of natural selection" one of most famous scientific work ever written. Charles darwin (1809-1882) son of prosperous country doctor in shrewsbury english country. Abandoned medical school in edinburgh and sent to cambridge university to prepare for life as vicar. At university darwin met some of most brilliant naturalists of day in 1831 he acquired berth on naval survey vessel hms beagel for world voyage. Back in london he came to understand how individual species could change how evolution could work took him 20 years to feel ready to publish ideas. For rest of his life working to defend his theory and understand implications & published further books. He was also preoccupied with harmonization of organisms and their surroundings.
