BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Irreversible Process, Epiphyte, Phylogenetic Diversity
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First person to use the word evolution. He got the mechanism wrong: inheritance of acquired characters wrong idea. He never did experiments: made observations and made narrative views. Every organisms on earth are inevitably on a linear line of decent: proceed through series of species over time. Right idea individuals do not evolve: for evolution to occur, it has to have population, as we pass on genes, we are the only one to have these genes, now and forever. Charles darwin and alfred russell wallace co-discovered mechanism of evolution. Brazil his first tropical forest: northern brazil. Enormous diversity compared to the temperate zone. Divide environment into factors: biotic factors. All stuff in environment that is affecting it: abiotic factors. Result in rapid insect and microbial populations. Millions of insects around the world: plants evolve strategies to deal with pressure from the insets.