BIOL 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Thomas Robert Malthus, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Georges Cuvier
5 Dec 2013
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Chapter 2: biology from natural philosophy to dawn derived from a common ancestor. such as a species or order. organisms. breed of the last individual. responsible for events in the past. One part of this view, for example, was the idea that the earth had been shaped by the cumulative action of gradual processes like sediment deposition & erosion. Statigraphy: study of layering rock (stratifaction) as a method for reconstructing the past. over access to individuals of the other sex. It can lead to the evolution of traits like showy ornaments or weapons that improve the individuals chances of mating. Taxonomy: the science of describing, naming & classifying species of living or fossil. Extinction: the permanent loss of a population/species arising with the death or failure to. Homologous: traits are similar because they are inherited from a common ancestor. Analogous: traits are similar because they have converged on a shared form.
