BIOA01H3 Lecture Notes - Genetic Drift, Speciation, Allele Frequency

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA01H3
• Professor: Mark Fitzpatrick

Document Summary

Charles darwin: theory of natural selection & theory of common ancestry. Baron cuvier: theory of catastrophism: stating that a catastrophe in one area will cause animals from surrounding area to come take the space. James hutton: theory of uniformitarianism: said that earth is very old, and that small changes add up to big changes. George buffon: said that species change over time, introduce common ancestry idea. Carolus linnaeus: father of taxonomy: classifying animals based on their origins. Alfred wallace: proposed idea of natural selection to darwin. Jean lamarack: theory of acquired traits: the way traits acquired in one"s lifetime is essentially passed onto their offsprings. Natural selection has a purpose to increase complexity -> natural selection has no purpose. Evolution by natural selection produces higher humans -> evolution does not do that. Evolution proves that there is no god -> that was not the purpose of evolution.