BIOSC 0160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erasmus Darwin, Georges Cuvier, Thomas Robert Malthus
Document Summary
Laws of organic life: life evolved from a single common ancestor, forming one living filament . Understood that there was some kind of sexual selection but didn"t know about genetic yet. Jean-baptiste lamarck: one of earliest to propose evolution in world where people believed in biblical idea of create. There"s a constant spontaneous of simplest life forms, life comes from no life. Then those also evolve to more complex forms. Changes in behavior changes in behavior greature use or disuse of a structure or body part strength of that procreation and pass it on heritable change. Georges cuvier: concluded that extinction was a thing b/c found fossils for animals that didn"t exist at the time. They had to have existed at some point. Advocated catastrophism: a belief that boundaries between strata were due to local flood or drought that destroyed the species then present.
