BIOL 2400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ordovician, Botany, Precambrian
9 Feb 2017
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Erasmus darwin: sent to medical school in edinburgh dropped out after 2 years, father decided he should be a clergyman of the church of england o needed a degree from and english university went to cambridge o met prof. henslow (botanist) and prof. sedgwick (geologist) and then became interested in natural history, the five year voyage of the beagle o prof. henslow nominated darwin to be the naturalist on the voyage o 1831 1836 o 5 weeks on the galapagos islands (600 miles of the coast of ecuador) o malthus essay on the principle of population provided mechanisms for evolution by natural selection o first outline of his theory in 1842 o the observations convinced darwin that life evolved galapagos finches o letter from alfred russel wallace proposed similar evolutionary ideas common ancestry and natural selection o pin 1859 o the common descent with modifications made sense of patterns in nature.
