Chapter 22 – Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Late 1700s Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) At age 22, went on 5 year mapping expedition of HMS Beagle
Influences on Darwin Thomas Malthus –“Essay on the Principle of Population” 1798 Charles Lyell –“Principles of Geology” 1830
Influences on Darwin cont Alfred Wallace
“On Origin of Species by Natural Selection” Population has variety Specific environment favors particular traits
Darwin’s finches
Artificial selection
Homologous structures Have different function/shape but derived from same body part of common ancestor
Fossil record
Vestigial structures
Embryonic development
Convergent evolution
Molecular record Closely related species have very similar DNA sequences
Industrial melanism