August 29, 2007
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PlayIdentify this unsung hero of modern science:
who was a major influence on the work of this guy:
And both of their work would’ve been useless without this guy’s work:
This question comes courtesy Prabhu, muchos gracias maga!
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Answer:
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. One of the first to study how species changed over time, he theorised that “evolution” occurs, and that it was governed by natural laws. Darwin was strongly influenced by his work and, in effect, said that the natural law Lamarck was talking about is the concept of Natural Selection. Lamarck’s and Darwin’s (and their contemporaries’) work was validated when Mendel’s theories on genetics were rediscovered.
(Bush hates this question because him and his tribe of Cro-magnons are believers in this Intelligent Design concept. Look it up if you really have nothing better to do.)
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pic 2: Charles Darwin
pic 3: Gregor Mendel(discovered genes)
Second is Charles Darwin who studied Lamarck’s theory of evolution under Robert Grant.
The last person is Gregor Mendel, a monk who published a paper on genetics after some experiments on peas(which unfortunately wasn’t recognized in his time).
2.Charles Darwin
3.Gregor Johann Mendel
Darwin’s theories and writings, combined with Gregor Mendel’s genetics form the basis of modern biology.
1st pic : james Watt
2nd pic : Charles Darwin
3rd pic : Gregor Johann Mendel
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1.Peter J. Bowler is a historian of biology who has written extensively on the history of evolutionary thought and on the history of genetics.
2.Charles Robert Darwin he proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection.
3.Gregor Johann Mendel was a priest and scientist often called the “father of modern genetics” for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him.
Connection:
The historian of evolution Peter J. Bowler has argued that it would not matter much if Darwin or even Galton had read Mendel, because not even Mendel was attempting to make the argument that his observed ratios were universal (he considered them to be a special case)
Mendel lived around the same time as the British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) and many have considered a historical evolutionary synthesis of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics during their lifetimes.
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Peter J Bowler : historian of evoltion
Charles Darwin
Gregor mendel
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a.Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), an influential French biologist, made important contributions to biological knowledge and theory, and spun speculative theories about natural phenomena. In this paper we describe how his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics–largely discounted by modern genetic knowledge–was often appealed to by many biological and religious thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to give a sense of purpose to theories of evolutionary change. Recent biological observations have renewed the currency of Lamarckian theory, but in a way that appears to be compatible with modern biological thought. This paper concludes with a discussion of reasons that explain why Lamarckian theory has continued to appeal to biologists and other thinkers throughout this century.
www.asa3.org/aSA/PSCF/2000/PSCF6-00Cook.html
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In his Origin of Species, Darwin makes reference to Lamarck’s ideas on macroevolution.
The first try went onto the page of Mr: Peter J Bowler
Gregor Mendel is considered the father of Genetics
Two tries are allowed ryt :)
2. Charles Darwin: he proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection.
3. Gregor Mendel: the “father of modern genetics” for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him.
I do not know why George Bush hates the question though…
And Darwin(second figure). His theory fell in line with that of Lamarck.
Finally, Mendel ‘baap’ of them all :-)
2>charles darwin
3>gregor mendel
2)the second one was that of charles darwin who was interested in lamarck’s theory of evolution
3)the third one is that of gregor mendel and his revolutionary work dominant and recessive phenotypes
pic 2 is Charles Darwin and 3 is Gregor Johann Mendel !
the connect is Genetics & Evolution
3rd pic is of Gregor Mendel of the pea soup fame :) he established the basic laws of genetics.
2nd pic is of Darwin , who was also Mendel`s contemporary & of course took things to the next level,
1st pic is of Francis Galton (havent heard that name ina loooooong time now !) who established a correlation between the heights of parents & their offspring ,plus was also Darwins half-cousin (thus again proving that Genius is in the Genes !)
Kudos to Prabhu !
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