PPT-Darwin’s Case For Evolution

Struggle for existence High birth rates and shortage of lifes needs Food and living space Fitness ability to survive and reproduce in your environment Survival of the fittest Adaptation Characteristic to . Radinka. Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born in February 1809 in Mount Shrewsbury UK. . He was educated in Shrewsbury School then sent to Edinburg University to study medicine. Two years later in 1827, he was beginning a degree in divinity (study of religion) at Cambridge. . and the . New Biology. Andreas Vesalius, . Fabrica. (1543). The Revolution in . S. urgery. 1700s: . “Although . medical students usually learned some rudimentary anatomy, this was considered a useful but not vital adjunct to on-the-job experience. And when patients died on the operating table as a result of ignorance and blundering, as they frequently did, few, if any, lessons were learned from the outcome.” . Chapter 15. Darwin's Theory of Evolution. What is Evolution?. Evolution is…... Change in a species over time. The process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms. A theory. Well-supported testable explanation (hypothesis) of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world. Change over time…. Geology. Began to study rock layers called strata. George Cuvier. Studied fossils. Found extinct species and noticed the deeper the fossil the more unique. Catastrophism. Charles Lyell. How would Hutton and Lyell explain the formation of the Grand Canyon. 2 . Review. What is an acquired characteristic and what role did Lamarck think they played in evolution. 3 . Review. What is artificial selection. Charles Darwin was born February 12 1809 in Shrewsbury England. . He came from a long line of doctors, his father was a medical doctor, and his grandfather was a botanist.. He was described as someone who “loved to explore nature”. Voyage. of the . Beagle. Psalm 104:24-30. O LORD, how manifold are your works!. In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.. published 1844, anonymously by Robert Chambers. Elaborated the idea that all matter, inorganic and organic, evolved out of inorganic dust by the accumulation of accidental mutations caused somehow by changes in nutrition or environment.. Evolutionary Ideas. A. lthough Darwin is given much credit for evolutionary theory, he was not the first person to come up with the idea.. Evolution is the change in a population over time.. The concept of evolution had been discussed for more than 100 years prior to Darwin’s theory.. Early scientists proposed ideas about evolution. . Evolution is the biological change process by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors.. A species is a group of organisms that can reproduce and have fertile offspring.. Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born in the mount, Shrewsbury and was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist. He was best known for the science of evolution. Charles lived in 3 places: Downe Kent, London and Shrewsbury. Sadly . & . Natural Selection. studied medicine at Edinburgh University (1825-1827) where the sight of blood and surgery without anesthetics repulsed him. studied to become a clergyman at Cambridge University (1827-1831). Adaptation. Adaptations are inherited traits that increase a group’s chance of . survival & reproduction. This type of finch has a thick beak .  adaptation for cracking open seeds. Variation. . The process by which organism change over time. Based on science, not opinion.. Darwin. :. Evolution is descent with modification. Evolution. :. changes through time. Species accumulate difference.