BIOS10119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Linnaeus, Samuel Wilberforce, Neo-Darwinism
20 Oct 2016
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Lecture 2 notes: the 1800s and charles darwin (1809-1882) Beagle: captain fizroy was in the british navy and had been appointed to captain recently when he was tasked with the job of plotting and making maps of western south america. In the year 1831 (before his expedition with the h. m. s. Orthodox and did not believe in evolution at all. Part of the expedition was in the galapagos islands. Fit: darwin was from a religious family and originally did not think that evolution and its study made sense. The law of fossil succession: glyptodont (extinct) was an animal found in different areas in south america, including. *populations with resources increase rapidly/exponentially; these populations cannot be supported because there are simply not enough resources. *darwin then came to the conclusion that if this is true for humans, it must also be applied to every living thing; everything wants to reproduce.
