BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Radiocarbon Dating, Decay Product, Cyanobacteria
4 May 2014
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Age of enlightenment: age of reason (europe: 1600-1800) Darwin"s grandfather wrote a poem on how the earth formed with an explosion. ^ made darwin more open minded about the changing earth. Europeans travelling everywhere to map the coast. Spent his time in south east asia whereas darwin in england. Both articulated the theory of natural selection. ^ humans have intentionally modified other species over many generations by selecting and breeding individuals with desired traits. Whereas natural selection, the environment chooses the selected individuals to survive. Geologists kept discovering that the earth is older than they thought every year. Gave darwin a book: uniformitarianism was promotes by his friend in his book. Sedimentary rocks are in layers on the earth. Strata is one layer of sedimentary rocks (stratum is plural) Labelled an earlier era as an age of reptiles . Concluded: the deeper the strata, the more dissimilar the fossils are from current life.
