Bio 251 exam 5 pop bio Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) Origin of Species challenged a cen- turies-old worldview Can we test whether Earth is ~6000 years old? Doctrine of Signatures fossils - Darwin made two points: -- today's organisms descended from an- cestral species -- natural selection was mechanism for evolutionary change in pops - 1700's dominant philosophy was natur-al theology: - proposed that adaptations of organ-isms were evidence that Creato...

Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) Origin of Species challenged a cen- turies-old worldview Can we test whether Earth is ~6000 years old? Doctrine of Signatures fossils - Darwin made two points: -- today's organisms descended from an- cestral species -- natural selection was mechanism for evolutionary change in pops - 1700's dominant philosophy was natur-al theology: - proposed that adaptations of organ-isms were evidence that Creato...