EEMB 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geomorphology, Macroevolution, Microevolution
17 Jan 2018
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Sam sweet, 1124 noble hall; oh: thursday 11-12, 1-2, or by appointment sweet@lifesci. ucsb. edu. Adaptation, speciation radiation, extinction (timescales) <1 to 10^3 years. Biology has more degrees of freedom than chemistry and physics, so harder to predict a trend/ principle. Strong idea to not deviate the study of evolution away from the book. But as europeans began to explore the rest of the world, they discovered new species tha weren"t covered in the book of genesis. See separate creation in different continent and at different time. Grouped organisms by similarity of characteristics and creatures. Argues that the scale of nature as an escalator. Primitive organisms were continually being created and progressed toward more. "perfect" forms by the agency of "needs" and "life forces" As organisms become better adapted to the environment, they increase in complexity an become more "perfect" They all have different ancestors that aren"t genetically related. Worm can progress to become fish, then dog, then human human worm time.
