BIO 258 Notes
WEEK #2.
HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES -- DARWINISM

• Charles Lyell: Uniformitarianism. Lyell's influence. (E6)
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882):
  Family; youth & education in Shrewsbury, Edinburgh, Cambridge;
  summer trip with Sedgwick; invitation to the Beagle voyage. __________
• The voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1835). (Minkoff Ch. 5; E7).
  • Volcanic islands; South American fauna
  • Lyell's book; earthquake; coral reef theory
  • Galapagos (fauna, resemblances, tortoises, finches)
  • flightless birds and marsupials
  • After the Beagle: notebook (1836)
  • pigeons and animal breeders
  • Malthus (Darwin reads him in 1837)
  • 1842 and 1844 manuscripts; letter to Hooker
  • barnacles
  • Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers)
  __________
• On The Origin of Species. (E8)
  
  • Wallace, Linnean society papers, publication
  • animal breeding practices; "struggle for existence"; natural selection (Darwin's comparison)
  • some objections answered
  • evidence for branching evolution; explanation of phylogenies, homologies, geographic patterns, islands.
  • Reception of Darwinism in England (Huxley vs Wilberforce), U.S. (social Darwinists),
    France (Royer), Germany (Haeckel), Marxists, Russia.

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