LIFESCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Geologic Time Scale, Radiometric Dating, Special Creation
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Evolution is one of the most important ideas in modern biology. Special creation held that: all species are independent, in the sense of being unrelated to each other, life on earth is young perhaps just 6000 years old, species are immutable, or incapable of change. Typological thinking is based on the idea that species are unchanging types and that variations within species are unimportant or even misleading. The great chain of being or the scale of nature organisms were organized by increased size and complexity, with humans being at the top. Aristotle"s central claims were popular: species are fixed types, some species are higher more complex/ better than others. Lamarck and the idea of evolutions as change through time. Lamarckian evolution is progressive in the sense of always producing larger or better / more complex species. Darwin and wallace and evolution by natural selection.
