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Evolution

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the progressive change of organisms as they descent from ancestral species.

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modern synthesis

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Darwin’s theory of natural selection, combined with other mechanisms of evolution discovered since Darwin form the current scientific paradigm in the biological sciences.
(Provids a central explanation for phenomena in scuh diverse fields as paleontology and develiopmental biology, medicine and psychology.)

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When was evolution for proposed

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the ancient Greek scientist, Anaximander, proposed a theory of evolution.

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The first plausible, widely-accepted theory of evolution by natural selection was

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Darwin and Wallace’s theory of evolution.

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What has helped us to develop a therapy for HIV?

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Our understanding of evolutionary biology.
The “triple therapy” is an example of evolutionary medicine. (We use 3 drugs simultaneously to subvert the evolution of the virus. Evolving resistance to one drug means loosing resistance to another)

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Where does pencicillin come from?

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It was evolved by fungi, over millions of years to kill off their bacterial competitors.

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What is happening to bacterial pathogens in response to antibiotics?

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The bacterial pathogens have evolved resistance to our antibiotics, because extensive use of these drugs has caused very strong natural selection in favor of mutations which favor antibiotic resistance.

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the only mechanism capable of producing adaptation

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natural selection

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Was natural selection immediately accepted?

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No it took until the 1930s for Darwin’s ideas to be synthesized with a modern understanding of genetics for widespread acceptance.

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Intellectual stepping-stones to developing a theory of evolution include

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  • linnaeus and taxonomy
  • Malthus and the principle of population
  • Lyell and Uniformitarianism
  • Lamarck and the first comprehensive theory of evolution
  • The voyage of the beagle
  • Wallace and Darwin
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Linnaeus and Taxonomy

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  • A physician and botanist. *Founded taxonomy. *Developed the two part system of nomeclature we use today
  • Did not believe in evolution by descent.
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Malthus

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“An essay on the Principle of Population”

State people tend to have more children than can possibly survive

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Previous thoughts on the age of earth

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Hindu religion thinks it’s older.

Christian theology says it is younger

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Hutton

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Proposed it was possible to explain geological land formations by processes that are currently in operation, such as erosion and sedimentation.

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gradualism

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canyons were cut by the erosion of streams, layers of sediment were deposited at the edge of river deltas, these processes occurred slowly over a very long time

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Charles Lyell

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Embraces uniformitarianism- the idea the geological processes in operation now operated similarly in the past, at about the same rate.

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Jean Baptiste Lamarck

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Developed the first comprehensive model of evolution.

  • propose organisms increased in complexity through use of an innate tendency.
  • Believed characteristics acquired through a lifetime could be passed down.
  • EVERY ORGANISM STRIVES FOR GREATER COMPLEXITY AND TO BE BETTER.
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Alfred Russell Wallace

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Developed essentially the same theory of evolution by natural selection as Darwin. Originally shared credit for the discovery with Darwin.

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Why is Darwin better known today than Alfred Russell Wallace?

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He amassed a considerable amount of evidence to support his idea’s. Wallace’s arguments were more intuitive and contained a less-extensive battery of examples.

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Arguments made in the origin of species

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  • All organisms produce more offspring than can possibly survive
  • All organisms vary for a wide variety of different attributes and features
  • Some variation is heritable
  • Some of this variation must influence reproductive success.
  • Desirable characteristics will be preferentially passed on.