Darwin and Evolution 6.1 - Students
Darwin and Evolution 6.1 - Students
Darwin and Evolution 6.1 - Students
EVOLUTION
15.1 The History of Evolutionary Thought
15.2 Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
15.3 Evidence for Evolution
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15.1 The History of
Evolutionary Thought
Learning Outcomes
Headline
BELL RINGER
What do you know about Evolution
Charles Darwin
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Evolution, or change over time, is the
process by which modern organisms have
descended from ancient organisms.
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Ideas that shaped Darwin’s
Thinking
Carolus Linnaeus :1707-78
The fixity of species
Count Buffon:1707-88
Wrote 44-volume catalog of all known plants and
animals
Suggested descent with modification
Late-Eighteenth-Century Influence
First
biologist to:
Propose evolution
Tendency toward
Perfection(Giraffe
necks)
Inheritance of
Acquired Traits
INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS
Ideas that shaped Darwin’s
Thinking
James Hutton:
1795 Theory of
Geological change
Forces change
earth’s surface
shape
Ideas that shaped Darwin’s Thinking
These layers of sedimentary rocks, which often contain fossils, are then
uplifted to form land during geological upheavals.
Proposed uniformitarianism(-natural process witnessed
today are same process that occurred in the past) rates
and processes of change are constant
Ideas that Shaped Darwin’s
Thinking
Charles Lyell
Book: Principles of Geography which
contain Hutton,s idea.
Geographical features can be built up or
torn down
Darwin thought if earth changed over time,
what about life?
Population Growth
Thomas Malthus-19th century
English economist
If population grew (more
Babies born than die)
Insufficient living space