Endless Forms Most Beautiful Notes

Charles Darwin

• Wanted to go to medical program until he saw surgery
• Took up his passions
• Started at age 16
• Father thought he was amounting to nothing and wanted him to join the clergy
• He was able to travel w/ the British ships and left what his father wanted
• His father didn't approve
• At age 22 set off on a 2 year voyage ended being 5 years
• experienced all weather
• experienced sea sickness
• Lyell's principles of Gology and the bible 2 most important books
• Found out all landforms change
• First great theory about coral reefs
• Voyage took him many places
• Deep jungles of S. America
• saw flightless birds
• found fossils (giant sloth fossils)
• Galapagos Islands
• swimming lizards
• giant turtles
• seals
• fenches
• Not only land forms change, so do species
• species changing was dangerous at the time
• knew it was a risk
• kept to himself
• wrote in secret books
• married his first cousin
• became a pigeon reader
• finches he collected were all different
• decided came from the same ancestor
• life is connected in a family
• he had a theory
• no one would hear of 20 years
• fathered 10 children, worked at home (home body)
• Anne Darwin was threatened by another scientist that was proposing the same thing for awhile now
• completed the origin of species
• supports evidence and arguments
• wallace did not become as known as Darwin
• Darwin's books inspired more people than Wa;;ace
• let his wife read the theories and told her to put in drawer till he dies, but he lived much longer than he thought
• fossil record was the best proof of evolution
• 13210 feet up sea level you can see fossils
• Burgee Shale; Trilobites over 500 years old
• Bone Fossils fount 150 million years ago
• Fossil Butte national park
• fossil fish due to lake there
• palm trees (climate related to Florida)
• La Brea Tar Pits
• thick, goey petroleum
• dead center of L.A.
• piles of bones due to animals becoming trapped and feeding on each other 

Key Facts From the Fossil Record

• animal and plant forma have changed over time
• the timespan of evolution is immense
• extinction is the fate of most species that ever existed 
• How?
• variation
• time 
• selection
• Example
• lava flow
• pocket mice live there
• sandy mouse/dark rock
• dark mouse/ light rock
• all same species
• MCIR gene determine color variates

Color of Mouse Depends on:

• mutation rate
• population rate
•  reproduction rate
• 1 in 25 million will have dark coat
• at least 5 babes a year 5000 females
• every thousand years a black mouse in born to a sandy colored mouse