Ch 16 Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
16.1 Darwin’s voyage
Evolution
Darwin’s voyage
Observations on Beagle
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Species vary globally
Species vary locally
Mockingbirds
Species vary over time
Specimens
Putting the pieces together
16.2 Ideas that shaped Darwin
Hutton
Uniformitarianism
Lyell
Hutton’s and Lyell’s conclusion
Lamarck
Previous evolution thoughts
Helped Darwin
Evaluating Lamarck
Malthus and population growth
Helped Darwin
Artificial selection
Helped Darwin
16.3 Darwin presents his case
Draft
Wallace
The Origin of Species
Natural selection occurs when
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Struggle for existence
Variation
Adaptation
Fitness
Survival of the fittest
Natural selection
Natural selection steps
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Grasshoppers
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Natural selection and adaptation
Environmental changes
Common descent
16.4 Evidence of evolution
Biogeography
Distantly related but similar
Age of the Earth
Recent fossils finds of whales
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Homologous structures
Analogous structures
Vestigial structures
Embryology
Genetic code
Homologous molecules
Testing natural selection
Testable assumptions
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What they did
What they found