BIO 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mendelian Inheritance, Ethidium Bromide, Dna Replication
1 Feb 2017
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Great naturalist, flied biologist, geographer: amazon and the malay peninsula. Discovered geographic wallace line dividing australia from asia in terms of their flora and fauna: independently formulated evolution by natural selection. Co-published discovery with darwin in 1858 (essays submitted to the linnean society of. Extensive natural observations from the uk and from his worldwide journey on the h. m. s beagle (27th december, 1831 2nd october, 1836) Darwin"s observations: regions of the world tend to have organisms distinct from other regions, but, islands tend to have groups of unique species. Related to but distinct from mainland species. Island (common ancestor of all species was a finch from mainland south. Key influences on darwin (these inferences inspired components of darwin"s theory: paleontologist/anatomist georges cuvier (1769- Ancient animals were similar but not identical to modern ones. Extinctions must have occurred: geologist charles lyell (1797-1875) Uniformitarianism: the same processes that happen now have been happening all along, back to ancient times (principally: erosion, sedimentation)
