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● Natural selection answers the “why” question of evolution
Important points:
● The individual is the most important unit of biological change
● Variation among individuals is essential
What Darwin Actually Said
● Proposed a testable hypothesis
○ Darwin writes 14 chapters trying to demonstrate that evolution by natural selection
didn’t happen, but comes to the conclusion that all the data he compiled can’t refute this
idea. Lecture 3: The Controversy of Evolution & Skeletal Anatomy
● Evolution by natural selection in three parts
○ Principle of variation
○ Principle of heredity ● ●
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● ● ● ○ Principle of differential fitness
Scopes Trial (Prelude)
○ Summer for the Gods: Larson
○ March 1925: Tennessee’s Butler Act: cannot teach evolutionary theory in public school
○ American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) offered to defend those in defiance of act
○ City of Dayton looking for publicity
Prosecution: William Jennings Bryan (Darwinism undermined morality);7 Defense: Clarence
Darrow
Herbert Spencer: 1864 Principles of Biology
○ coined “survival of the fittest”
○ applied Lamarckian sense of evolution to sociology rather than natural selection
Darwin: Evolution by natural selection provides no clues for human conduct or moral dilemmas.
Recent Major Legal Cases (don’t know if we need to memorize these)
○ Selman v. Cobb County (2006, Georgia): Textbook disclaimer
○ Kitzmiller v.Dover(2005, Pennsylva...
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- Spring '08
- HLUSKO
- DNA, Evolution, Darwin, The American, variation
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