1. AP Environmental Science Focus on Evolution “Nothing in biology makes sense… except in the light of evolution.” Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973)

2. “Biology” during the 1800’s  Late 18th-early 19th c. was an age of discovery and natural history  Natural Theology All plants & animals were created “as is” ~ 6,000 to 10,000 years ago William Paley---”a watch demands a watchmaker --- a design demands a designer!”

3. Great Geological Debate 1810-1840  Catastrophism Cuvier, Buffon All changes to animals and geology are due to sudden cataclysmic events  Uniformitarianism Hutton & Lyell The earth was shaped by slow, gradual processes the we see today.

4.  Born February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England  Education Entered the University of Edinburgh at age 16 to study medicine Entered Cambridge University’s Christ College in 1828 to study for the ministry Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

5. Darwin’s Parents  Dr. Robert Darwin  Susannah Wedgwood Darwin

6. Darwin’s Famous Grandfathers  Erasmus Darwin  Josiah Wedgwood

7. Wedgwood China

8. J.S. Henslow (1796-1861)  Darwin’s favorite botany professor  Recommends Darwin to the British Admiralty to serve as ship’s naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle

9. H.M.S. Beagle  Captain Robert FitzRoy  Mission was to map the western coast of South America for the British Navy  Darwin serves as ship’s naturalist and companion to the captain.

10. Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1831-1836)

11. Galapagos Islands

12. Galapagos Unique Animals

13. Return to England  Publishes what came to be known as the Voyage of the Beagle  Begins notebook on Transmutation of Species Title page – 1905 edition H.M.S. Beagle by Conrad Martens

14. Settling Down  Marries his first cousin Emma Wedgwood on January 29, 1839  Moves into an 18 acre estate in Down, England

15. Darwin’s Scientific Subjects Barnacles

16. Establishes a Theory of Atoll Formation

17. Keeping Quiet on Evolution  Despite working on “transmutation” since 1837 Darwin publicly says nothing. Writes two private essays in 1842 & 1844.  Robert Chambers publishes Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation in 1844. Contains “evolutionary ideas” but is severely ridiculed.

18. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)  June 18, 1858  Darwin receives a manuscript from Wallace, a young naturalist working in the Malay Archipelago. On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type

19. Joint Presentation  On July 1, 1858 Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker present both Darwin’s 1844 and Wallace’s manuscripts before the Linnaean Society of London.  Darwin does not attend due to his son’s death from scarlet fever three days before.

20. Publication of The Origin  Darwin finally publishes his “big book,” On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life on November 24, 1859.  It’s 1250 copies sold out on the first day.

21. Defending Darwin Thomas Henry Huxley - “Darwin’s Bulldog”

22. Darwin’s “Five Theories of Evolution”  1) Evolution as Such  2) Common Descent  3) Variation & Natural Selection  4) “Population Thinking” and Allopatric Speciation  5) Gradualness

23. 1)Evolution as Such  Change happens!  This theory was not new with Darwin. Others like Lamarck had said that change happens over 50 years before! However, the majority of scientists in 1859 did not believe in evolutionary change.  The massive evidence that Darwin presents was so overwhelming that within a few years virtually every biologist was convinced.

24. What we know now…  1 billion years of chemical change to form the first cells, followed by about 3.7 billion years of biological change. Figure 4-2

25. Biological Evolution  This has led to the variety of species we find on the earth today. Figure 4-2

26. 2)Common Descent  All organisms have descended from common ancestors by a continuous process of “branching.”  Common descent explains so much about comparative anatomy, embryology, biogeography, systematics…and behavior.  Putting humans into this branching tree of common descent takes humans away from their privileged position…and causes many people to reject the idea.  What Darwin Doesn’t Do Darwin stops short of publishing man’s place in this evolutionary tree and he never speculates on the origins of the first organisms

27. “I think…”  Sketch from Darwin’s 1838 notebook on transmutation  First clue that Darwin had embraced the idea of common descent

28. Common Descent Diagram in The Origin of Species

29. Tetrapod Limb Homologies

30. Comparative Embryology “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”

31. 3)Variation & Natural Selection  1) Individual variation in organisms within a population is the norm not the exception.  2) Populations reproduce at a geometric rate that is faster than the environment can support. Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population  3) Some organisms will survive…most will die.  4) Which organisms will live and which will die? Does each individual have an equal chance of survival? Darwin says---NO! Those individuals with the best adaptations will survive--- Natural Selection!

32. Natural Selection and Adaptation: Leaving More Offspring With Beneficial Traits  Three conditions are necessary for biological evolution: Genetic variability, Traits must be heritable, differential reproduction. Trait must lead to differential reproduction. adaptive trait  An adaptive trait is any heritable trait that enables an organism to survive through natural selection and reproduce better under prevailing environmental conditions.

33. Coevolution: A Biological Arms Race  Interacting species can engage in a back and forth genetic contest in which each gains a temporary genetic advantage over the other. This often happens between predators and prey species. Or results in symbioses

34. Hybridization and Gene Swapping: other Ways to Exchange Genes  New species can arise through hybridization. Occurs when individuals to two distinct species crossbreed to produce a fertile offspring.  Some species (mostly microorganisms) can exchange genes without sexual reproduction. Horizontal gene transfer Horizontal gene transfer

35. Limits on Adaptation through Natural Selection  A population’s ability to adapt to new environmental conditions through natural selection is limited by its gene pool and how fast it can reproduce. Humans have a relatively slow generation time (decades) and output (# of young) versus some other species.

36.  Darwin recognizes that it is populations that change, not individuals. Gives rise to “population thinking”  Darwin realizes that “varieties are no more than incipient species.” 4) “Population Thinking” & Allopatric Speciation

37. Geographic Isolation Geographic Isolation.  Darwin realizes that when a population becomes split by geographic barriers that these separate populations change in their own unique ways---Geographic Isolation. Figure 4-10

38. Allopatric Speciation Reproductive Isolation After a long period of time these changes become so great that the individuals from the different populations can no longer reproduce with one another---Reproductive Isolation

39. 5) Gradualness

40. GEOLOGIC PROCESSES, CLIMATE CHANGE, CATASTROPHES, AND EVOLUTION  The movement of solid (tectonic) plates making up the earth’s surface, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes can wipe out existing species and help form new ones. The locations of continents and oceanic basins influence climate. The movement of continents have allowed species to move.

41. Extinction: Lights Out  Extinction occurs when the population cannot adapt to changing environmental conditions.  The golden toad of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest has become extinct because of changes in climate. Figure 4-11

42. Fig. 4-12, p. 93 Tertiary Bar width represents relative number of living species EraPeriod Species and families experiencing mass extinction Millions of years ago Ordovician: 50% of animal families, including many trilobites. Devonian: 30% of animal families, including agnathan and placoderm fishes and many trilobites. 500 345 Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Extinction Paleozoic Mesozoic Cenozoic Triassic: 35% of animal families, including many reptiles and marine mollusks. Permian: 90% of animal families, including over 95% of marine species; many trees, amphibians, most bryozoans and brachiopods, all trilobites. Carboniferous Permian Current extinction crisis caused by human activities. Many species are expected to become extinct within the next 50–100 years. Cretaceous: up to 80% of ruling reptiles (dinosaurs); many marine species including many foraminiferans and mollusks. Extinction Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous 250 180 65 Extinction QuaternaryToday

43. Effects of Humans on Biodiversity  The scientific consensus is that human activities are decreasing the earth’s biodiversity. Figure 4-13

44. Darwin’s Later Life  Becomes even more reclusive in later life.  Publishes extensively, including The Descent of Man (1871) and Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).  Dies of a heart attack on April 19, 1882 and is buried in Westminster Abbey near Sir Isaac Newton.

45. Darwin’s Legacy  Darwin moved intellectual thought from a paradigm of untestable wonder at special creation to an ability to examine the workings of the natural world, however ultimately formed, in terms of natural mechanisms and historical patterns…he in effect creates the “modern science of biology.”

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