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Excellent Runner
How Life on Earth began?
• Creationism
• Abiogenesis
Classical times ( 800 BC- 600 AD )
Essentialism
“ All species on earth were unchangeable “
Lamarck’s idea lacked evidence at that time. What do you think it was? Why do you
think this evidence was missing?
Charles Darwin and Natural Selection( 1809-1882)
There is heredity.
The surviving brown beetles have brown baby beetles because
this trait has a genetic basis.
End result:
The more advantageous trait, brown coloration, which allows
the beetle to have more offspring, becomes more common in
the population. If this process continues, eventually, all
individuals in the population will be brown.
1859, the book was published
Alfred Russel Wallace : The father of
Biogeography
1822-1884
Father of Genetics
Marsupials in Australia
3. Evidence from Comparative Anatomy
Pentadactyl limb
ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES are structures that perform the same function but have very
different embryological development or set of structures like bones.
4. Embryology
Ex: appendix
Example: pelvis and femur in a
whale
7.Evidence from Physiology and
Biochemistry
All living things passed on genetic
information from generation to
generation via DNA molecule
Extinction
Adaptive Radiation
Coevolution