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.
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- 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)
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- 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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