Important terms - Lecture 2

Science, Darwin and Evolution

 

Syllabus

Schedule

Critique guidelines

Sample exam questions

Intro bio mission statement

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Discussion questions

Testability

Natural selection

Hypothesis

Evolution

Buffon

Biogeography

Cuvier

Fossil record

Catastrophism

Taxonomy

Hutton

Comparative Anatomy

Lyell

Homologous structures

Uniformitarianism

Vestigial organs

Lamarck

Comparative Embryology

Inheritance of acquired characters

Ontogeny

Charles Darwin

Phylogeny

Galapogos Islands

Molecular Biology

Malthus

DNA sequences

Heritable variation

Genetic code

Even though it is largely an historical science, how is evolution by natural selection testable?

 

What does the influence of other individuals' ideas on Darwin tell you about how scientific ideas come about?

 

What were the main lines of evidence that Darwin used to support evolution by natural selection? What other support do we have now?

 

 

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