Today You Will Learn
- HOW DID OBSERVATIONS OF NATURE CHANGE OUR THINKING IN THE 19TH CENTURY?
- WHAT IS NATURAL SELECTION?
- WHY DO BIOLOGISTS STUDY ROCKS AND FOSSILS?
- HOW IS THE AGE OF ROCKS AND FOSSILS MEASURED?
- HOW HAS EARTH CHANGED OVER GEOLOGIC TIME?
Lecture Links
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| Ch 16 Handout | PDF |
| “Radiocarbon Dating” Youtube video | Video |
| Website “Misconceptions About Evolution” (collaborative project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education) | Link |
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I learned a lot more about Darwin and Wallace. When I went to High School it was all about Darwin.
What I liked the most about this lesson the most is that revolution changes over time of many years that pass. Learning that ancient things from the past can be explained and discovered by studying the physical, chemical, and last but not least the biological processes in the ancient stuff like fossils. Also how Earth changes by new crusts developing through outward rides on Earth’s floor, forcing many tectonic plates away from the ridges into the trenches in the Earth floor.
Sincerely: Jewels Hamilton
I liked learning about darwin and his voyage on the beagle, this lecture went more in-depth than the lesson I learned in highschool.
I understand natural selection much better now. The lecture was helpful.
I liked that the presentation was not just point by point.
I was able to keep up, I also acquired some great notes!