lecture 9- Darwin Flashcards
features of life
diverse, mostly insects, largely unknown
examples of how life is not well designed
vertebrates’ eyes designed wrong wat round
big questions about life
why is there life on earth
why is life on earth so diverse
why do living things appear to be designed
why are some designs so poor
what was the first way of classification and who did it
2 part names - carl linnaeus
what ideas did Erasmus Darwin have
common decent
heritability
survival of the fittest
struggle for existence
what is catastrophism
lots of things died out, populations grew from few survivors
what is gradualism
small apparently weak forces given enough time could have huge geographical effects
what is evolution by vertical speciation
the complex force driving organisms up the ladder of complexity
principle of population
famines wars and disease happen to restore the balance of food to population
what was darwins job on his worldwide voyage
observe and collect specimens of interest all over the world
what were Darwins’ and Wallaces’ ideas
horizontal speciation
gradualism
common descent
man as animal
natural selection
