Summary of Lecture 1

17/11/03


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Summary of Lecture 1

2: Darwin and Wallace Proposed Two Theories of Evolution

3:Population Dynamics (Malthus 1798)

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Puzzles in Evolution

5. Human eye is not perfect

5a: Blind spot

6. Hapless Gardener

6a: Testis tubing

7. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

OK, so life isn’t perfect, but...

8: Evolution is like a safecracker

9: How to account for eyes

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10: How to evolve an eye

10b:Simulated evolution of eyes

How do we get new things evolving?

11: Darwin’s finches are still finches

12: Natural Selection can be conservative

13: People have bred many kinds of pigeons … but they are still pigeons

14: Ontogeny: Embryos look more similar than adults

15: Are we apes that have not grown up?

16: Gene duplications as source of novelty

17:Gene and genome duplication may have been important in our evolution

18: Puzzles in evolution

20: The place of evolution in modern biology

21: Darwinian Medicine

22: Classical Medicine

23: Darwinian Medicine

24: Evolved Defenses

25: The problem with genes for x

26: Summary

Author: Roderic D. M. Page

Email: r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk

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