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Evidence For Evolution: Reading: Freeman, Chapter 23, 26
Evidence For Evolution: Reading: Freeman, Chapter 23, 26
Evolution
Reading: Freeman, Chapter 23, 26
Intellectual stepping-stones to
developing a theory of evolution
Malthus
Jean
Baptiste
Lamarck
Jean Baptiste de Lamark developed the first
Darwin
and
Wallace
Alfred Russell Wallace, a nineteenth century naturalist
Embryology
Vestigial and Homologous structures
Biogeography
The Fossil Record
Embryology
Snake Chicken
Possum
Cat
Bat
Human
Vestigial Structures
Many species retain structures that only make sense in
light of their ancestry.
These structures are typically reduced and nonfunctional,
but they are inherited from ancestors, in whom they were
important to survival or reproduction
Homologous Structures
The
Fossil
Record
The succession of forms in the fossil record clearly
suggests that organisms change through time, and
have descended from a common ancestor.
Different groups appear in the fossil record at
different times, with a general trend toward the
simplest organisms appearing the earliest..this is
at odds with the view that they were all created at
the same time.
Many forms have gone extinct, another
observation that is at odds with the view that each
species was specially created for a purpose.
Example-Whales have
an excellent fossil record-showing
transitional forms
Biogeography
Modern Evidence
Example-DDT resistance in
mosquitoes
Adaptation