1:Evolution Prof Rod Page & Dr Ruedi Nager
Lecture Notes Online
3: Definition
4: Overview of Lectures 1 & 2
5:A changing world view (200-300 years ago)
6: A changing world view
7: Darwin’s place in science
Unity of Nature
9: Life is constructed on a similar plan
10: Life is constructed on a similar plan
11: Vestigial organs
12: Vestigial organs in humans
13: Hind limbs in whales
14: Human embryo at 5 weeks
PPT Slide
Ontogeny
16: Comparative anatomy and embryology
Taxonomy
18: Scala Naturae (scale of nature)
19: Linnean classification of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris) and common buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
Geology
21: Three views of geology
22: Age of the Earth
23: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
23a: Resolution (what Kelvin didn’t know)
Fossils
Whale evolution (terrestrial to aquatic in ~ 8 Myr)
25:Pakicetus (50 Myr ago in Pakistan)
26:Rodhocetus (47 Myr ago in Pakistan)
27:Transitions in the fossil record: Foraminifera
Biogeography
29: Biogeography
30: Similar environment, different species
Summary
Email: r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk
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