Fys Notes on Darwin
FYS Notes – Was Darwin Wrong
* Overwhelming evidence proves something is more than “theory” * Theory is not a dreamy and unreliable speculation it is an explanatory statement that fits the evidence * A large percent (45 in a 2001 poll) believe god created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so * Only 12 percent believe got played no role in human formation * “So much for one part of the evolutionary process, known as anagenesis, during which a single species is transformed. But there's also a second part, known as speciation. Genetic changes sometimes accumulate within an isolated segment of a species, but not throughout the whole, as that isolated population adapts to its local conditions. Gradually it goes its own way, seizing a new ecological niche.” – David Quammen * Explains the overall diversity of life as well as the adaptation of individual species * Wallace and Darwin worked together to come up with ideas such as natural selection and evolution * Evidence by Darwin was presented in 4 categories Biogeography, paleontology, embryology, and morphology * Biogeography offered facts and patters associated with the mysterious clustering pattern among closely allied species * Paleontology reveals a similar clustering pattern in the dimension of time, one species exist in an area for millions of years but in time, disappears and a very similar species replaces it * Embryology is the idea that the embryo is the animal in its less modified state and that state reveals the structure of its progenitor * Morphology is the sorting of creatures into a hierarchy of categories based on which anatomical characters they share * However Darwin was wrong on several theories such as variation, geologic mystery, and most notably his theory of inheritance known as pangenesis * Human Biology by Proxy is the study between human genes and other genes that correlate (mice) and this is key
* Overwhelming evidence proves something is more than “theory” * Theory is not a dreamy and unreliable speculation it is an explanatory statement that fits the evidence * A large percent (45 in a 2001 poll) believe god created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so * Only 12 percent believe got played no role in human formation * “So much for one part of the evolutionary process, known as anagenesis, during which a single species is transformed. But there's also a second part, known as speciation. Genetic changes sometimes accumulate within an isolated segment of a species, but not throughout the whole, as that isolated population adapts to its local conditions. Gradually it goes its own way, seizing a new ecological niche.” – David Quammen * Explains the overall diversity of life as well as the adaptation of individual species * Wallace and Darwin worked together to come up with ideas such as natural selection and evolution * Evidence by Darwin was presented in 4 categories Biogeography, paleontology, embryology, and morphology * Biogeography offered facts and patters associated with the mysterious clustering pattern among closely allied species * Paleontology reveals a similar clustering pattern in the dimension of time, one species exist in an area for millions of years but in time, disappears and a very similar species replaces it * Embryology is the idea that the embryo is the animal in its less modified state and that state reveals the structure of its progenitor * Morphology is the sorting of creatures into a hierarchy of categories based on which anatomical characters they share * However Darwin was wrong on several theories such as variation, geologic mystery, and most notably his theory of inheritance known as pangenesis * Human Biology by Proxy is the study between human genes and other genes that correlate (mice) and this is key