Darwin's big idea - Lecture 2

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What was William Paley’s analogy

Watch and the tree

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John- Baptiste Lamark’s arguement & analogy

Organisms acquire traits in one life time and heritably passes it on

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Who did August Weissman prove wrong? Explain

  • Lamark

  • Somatic cells are not inherited. Inheritance only comes from germ cells

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Charles Darwin’s book

The origin of species

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What did Darwin and Wallace

Developed 1st theory of evolution and natural selection

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2 evolutionary facts

  1. All organisms have a common ancestor

  2. Natural selection leads to evolutio

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True or False: Malthus & Darwin came up with the struggle of existance

True, populations grow exponentially but there aren’t enough ressources 

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What did Wallace and Mathus come up with?

The survival of the fittest

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2 things Darwin discovered by evolution

  1. Concept of a changing world

  2. Mutations can arise randomly