[ANT101H5] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 90 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Lecture 4 heredity, evolution & human diversity. Key idea: all believe that organisms that exist today exist in the same form as they were created. However, lamarck"s idea is different, he is the first one to point out that organisms change from one generation to the next. Any trait that you acquire in your life time, your offspring can inherit (acquired inheritance) Alfred wallace, 1823-1910 came up with the same idea as darwin (natural selection) Struggle for existence means that those individuals with favorable variation survive and reproduce more successfully. Observed that the finches are the same specie, however there is a variation within the specie. Realizes that if there is variation among species, they over-reproduce more than the resources available. If there is variation then certain individuals will have more chances of surviving. Key concept: if there is variation among population, there is competition.
