OEB 53 Chapter Notes -Phenotype, Melanocortin 1 Receptor, Nucleobase

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
• Course: OEB 53
• Professor: Andrew Berry

Document Summary

1. 4 common misconceptions about evolution: evolution is just a theory, evolutionary biology has a complete explanation for everything that happened in the history of life, the theory of evolution is about the origin of life, the study of evolution is the search for direct ancestors and missing links, evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics, evolution is natural selection, evolution is entirely random. Oeb 53 reading notes: evolution provides secies with the adaptations they need. , evolution is a march of progress, evolution always goes from simple to comllex, evolution is the result of individuals adapting to their environment, evolution has made living things perfectly adapted to their environment, evolution happens for the good of the species, evolution promotes selfishness and cruelty, evolution seeks a peaceful harmony in nature, some forms of life are higher on the ladder of life, and some are lower, evolution has produced a stable diversity of life.