BIO 4113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foal, Gradualism, Burgess Shale
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*if there is variation in traits that are heritable and (deductive) there are limited resources and success is dependent on variable traits there must be descent with modification and we have the principle of self organization. All life shares a single common ancestor. Populational change - proportions individuals with given traits change. Common ancestry - all organisms on planet are related. Couldn"t be written at a better time as naturalism was at an all time high. Wilberforce vs huxley (darwin"s bulldogs) have initial debate on evolution following. Evolution is widely accepted, natural selection - not fully evolution was changing towards a greater foal and disagreed with darwin. The problem is that although happening at the same time, mendellian genetics hadn"t been applied to the theory of natural selection yet. Chalky cliffs of dover had exposed strata. Believed that the earth was a huge ball of molten rock that cooled slowly. You could measure the earth"s age by the rock"s temperature.
