Fundamentals of Genetics, Evolution, and Development 2: Darwin

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Fundamentals of Genetics, Evolution, and
Development2 Darwin the Origin of
Evolutionary Biology

• Bio 1111
• Christopher T. Cole
• University of Minnesota, Morris

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Bacon Darwin

• Reading
• Excerpt from Darwins Voyage of the Beagle
• Carroll
• Preface
• Chapter 1 pp. 19-33

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Charles Darwin, age 34 (the barnacle years)
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Frontispiece to Darwins Autobiography

• For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing
  so well as for the study of Truth as being
  gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to
  doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert,
  readiness to reconsider, carefulness to dispose
  and set in order and as being a man that neither
  affects what is new nor admires what is old, and
  hates every kind of imposture. So I thought my
  nature had a kind of familiarity and relationship
  with Truth.
• Bacon (Proem to the Interpretatio Naturae)

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You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and
rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to
yourself and all your family.
Browne, 1995 Charles Darwin Voyaging
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Cambridge proved more to Darwins liking
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Zimmer, 2001 Evolution
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• Disreputable to my character as a clergyman
  hereafter
• 2) A wild scheme
• 3) That they must have offered to many others
  before me the place of naturalist
• 4) And from its not being accepted there must be
  some serious objection to the vessel or
  expedition
• 5) That I should never settle down to a steady
  life hereafter
• 6) That my accomodations would be most
  uncomfortable
• 7) That you father should consider it as again
  changing my profession
• 8) That it would be a useless undertaking

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Anne Darwin 1841 - 1851
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The barnacle years 1846 -1854
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Darwin Baconian method

• After my return to England from the Beagle
  voyage it appeared to me that by following the
  example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting
  all facts which bore in any way on the variation
  of animals and plants under domestication and
  nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the
  whole subject.
• (contd).

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Darwin Baconian method

• My first notebook was opened in July 1837. I
  worked on true Baconian principles, and without
  any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale,
  more especially with respect to domesticated
  productions, by printed enquiries, by
  conversations with skillful breeders and
  gardeners, and by extensive reading.
• (Autobiography)

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Zimmer, 2001 Evolution
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Alfred Russell Wallace 1823-1913