2007-10-11
Genes Evolution and Behaviour
Darwin
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Common descent
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Natural selection
Doctrine of Progression and Special Creation (pre Darwin Ideas)
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World is full of as many diverse forms of life as there can be
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Each species is from God, not derived from one another
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Each species is pre-ordained, variations are error or pathology
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Continuation of species is part of the Grand Ascending Chain of
Progression
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Top of chain is Western man
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Obvious ally to him was the Christian Church
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Explanations to fossils, etc. is ‘The Great Flood’
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Charles Lyell
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1830 book: the world is extremely old, most of the ‘cataclysms’
were things like volcanoes, earthquakes, and floods like today
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Darwin wondered how existing species could adapt and change to survive
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Uniformitarian Geology
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Introduced by Lyell
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Endless time: earth is millions of years old
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Jean Baptiste-Lamarck (1744-1829)
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckian Inheritance)
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Environmental effects on organ development
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Use and disuse leads to change
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Changes in form through conscious will
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Movement toward perfection
Darwin
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First sent to Edinboroguh
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Christ’s College Cambridge in theology
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HMS Beagle (boat)
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