BIOLOGY 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Wild Horse, Selective Breeding
1 Mar 2016
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Bio152 lecture 16 applying evolutionary thinking. Transportation logistics: evolving roads to better serve the people. The form of these animals were different on each island, but the vegetation was all the same. Observations (theoretical context: prevailing context, christian theology all life creator in its current form by god 6000 years ago. William paley: theologian and philosopher, argument for the design of life by a christian god. The problem of change: sir charles lyell, principles of geology. Introduced the idea of uniformitarianism geological processes function today, same as they did in the past: geologic time scales were used, lots of variation among specie forms. Animal breeding: you can go from one type of horse, such as the wild horse, to all kinds of horses with different features over time, artificial selection is the term for this, it will be explained later.
