BSC 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, World Health Organization, Comparative Embryology
9 May 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Biology and society: persistent pests: mosquitoes and malaria. In the 1960s, the world health organization (who) began a campaign to eradicate the mosquitos that transmit malaria. It used ddt, to which some mosquitoes have evolved resistance. In the mid 1700s the study of fossils began to take form as a branch of science: naturalist george buffon. Suggested that the earth might be older than 6,000 years old. Observed similarities between fossils and living species. Suggested that organisms evolved by the process of adaptation. Also suggested some erroneous ideas, such as the inheritance of acquired characteristics. In december 1831, darwin left great britain on the hms beagle to explore the world: on his journey on the beagle, darwin. Observed various adaptations in organisms: darwin was intrigued by. The geographic distribution of organisms on the galapagos islands. The fact that galapagos organisms resembled those in south america.
