the movement was tainted by bad science with strong prejudices and ended up closing the ERO in 1939
Who is Charles Darwin?
He contradicted Linnaean Fixity of the Species -
3 major claims:
1. variation is a characteristic of animals/plants
2. variation is inherited
3. organisms over-produce to survive
4. favorable variations are more likely to survive and pass down traits
Who was Democritus (in regards to genetics)?
- Nurture vs Plato's (nature)
When were animals domesticated?
around 13,000 BCE
Who was Casper Wolff (in regards to genetics)?
- discredited the Theory of Preformationism (homunculus)
- demonstrated that different adult structures of both animal and plants were not preformed but rather appeared gradually during the course of embryonic development
Ovists belief
the homunculus resided in the egg
What is the Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics?
2 major laws:
1. Change in the environment -> change in needs -> change in behavior -> excess use or disuse of organ or structure -> inc or dec in size of organ or structure
2. all changes of such are inherited
- By JB Lamarck
Who was Joseph Gottlied Kolreuter?
- first to perform systematic hybridization experiments in plants
- studied the pollination process and revealed the important of insets to pollination
Who said the following, "of the semen, however, I assert that it is secreted by the whole body healthy by healthy parts, sick by sick parts. Hence as a rule, bald-headed begets bald-headed, blue eyed beget blue-eyed"
Hippocrates
Who said, "More people become able by excercise than by their natural predisposition"
