Thursday, April 16, 2015
Historical Influences on Darwin
Charles Darwin was an evolution scientist who is famous for his theory. His influences were from people like Linnaeus and his classification system. Also Lamarck, he was known for his Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristic, Lamarck ideas were similar to Darwin and was the first to come out with this theory. Lamarck believed was more complex that organisms are not altered by their environment, and that a change in the environment causes changes in the needs of organisms living in that environment, which in turn causes changes in their behavior. The altered behavior leads to greater use of a given structure or organ and use would cause the structure to increase in size over several generations, where the disuse would cause it to disappear. Also the result of these laws was the continuous, gradual change of all organisms, as they became adapted to their environments; the physiological needs of organisms, created by their interactions with the environment. This was Lamarck evolution theory. Now this is Similar to Darwin’s because it had the same concept which is adaptive change in ancestry, ultimately driven by environmental change, over long periods of time.
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I agree, although Darwin is famous for his theory. His theory is loosely based on many other peoples theories.
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ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting to read about Lamarck in your post because I didn't know anything about him. It is crazy that they had such similar views and ideas and I didn't know he influenced Darwin so much.
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