Evolution
The forces of evolution
What are genetic drift, mutation, natural selection, and gene flow?
Natural selection in action through finches.
Who is Charles Darwin?
fun fact: Was taught taxidermy by an enslaved man
Types of form and functional differences
Who is Johann Friedrich Blumenbach?
Mutation
Believed species changed by inheritance
Who is Chavalier de Lamarck?
Types of DNA differences
What is Genetic?
Fun Fact:
Two adjacent chimpanzee populations in West Africa have greater variation between them than the whole human population does.
The concept of races of humans originated in different places from different ancestors
What is Polygenism?
Differential survival and reproductive success
What are some effects of natural selection?
fun fact: The vagus nerve and its long trek is an example of how natural selection doesn't always lead to perfection.
Physiological responses to environmental stresses
What are Acclimation, Acclimatizing, and Developmental acclimatization?
the movement that believed in the forced sterilization of "undesirables” to purify the “race’s genetics"
What is The Eugenics movement?
fun fact:
in 1927, the US Supreme Court claimed eugenics was constitutional
Developed a classification system for the natural world's organisms
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
Two traits share a similar pattern of geographic variation
What is Concordance?
A combination of cultural and phenotypic features
What is race?
The introduction of new genes in a population as a result of migration between populations
What is Gene Flow?
Believed catastrophes change the environment and force change to happen
Who is George Cuvier?
Stress on the body as a result of long-term homeostasis.
What is Senescence?
Believed in a different species for each race
Who is Carl Linnaeus? (again)