BIOL 180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22.1: Germ Theory Of Disease, Special Creation, Amniote

• School: UW
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 180
• Professor: J A C O B D E V I N C O O P E R, S C O T T R I D E R F R E E M A N

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Bio 180: chapter 22. 1: the rise of evolutionary thought. The theory of evolution by natural selection was independently developed by darwin and. It explains how populations, individuals of the same species that live in the same area at the same time, adapt to environments ranging from the desert to the tundra. This chapter talks about one of the 5 key attributes of life: that populations evolve. When darwin first published his book, the dominating theory was the special creation theory: all species are independent, life on earth is young 6000 years old, species are incapable of change. A scientific revolution overturns an existing idea about how nature works and replaces it with a radically different idea. The idea that species were supernaturally created dominated western thinking. Darwin and wallace overturned it with the theory of evolution. Plato believed that every organism was created perfect by god. He acknowledged that there were minor differences between organisms.