BIOL 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Uniformitarianism, Drug Resistance, Biogeography
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Chapter 22: descent with modification: a darwinian view of life: define evolution and adaptation. Concept 22. 1: the darwinian revolution challenged traditional views of a young earth inhabited by unchanging species: describe the theories of catastrophism, gradualism, and uniformitarianism, explain the mechanism for evolutionary change proposed by jean-baptiste de lamarck. Concept 22. 2: descent with modification by natural selection explains the adaptations of organisms and the unity and diversity of life: explain the mechanism for evolutionary change proposed by darwin in on the origin of. Species: describe the two inferences darwin made from his observations that led him to propose natural selection as a mechanism for evolutionary change, distinguish between artificial selection and natural selection, explain why an individual organism cannot evolve. Dar(cid:449)in"s theory of natural sele(cid:272)tion: what observations have been made regarding the fossil record.
