Short Week in Week 1 and in Week 2
This module has only two lectures and no labs. Both Thursdays we will have the day off.
Lecture 1: Charles Darwin and Evolution
We will open lecture 1 with a discussion of what the world was like at the time of Charles Darwin and then follow him on his HMS Beagle and his four year 'field trip' where the theory of evolution began.
What many do not realize is that Darwin was quite religious and wrote in his diary that he bore the brunt of the sailor's ridicule for quoting Scripture as final authority. His observation of finch beaks on varied islands go him wondering why they were so different.
We will then follow the theory after Darwin's time through the Scope's Monkey Trial, neoDarinism, punctuated equilibrium, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. We will then take a look at the beginnings of the intelligent design movement.
What many do not realize is that Darwin was quite religious and wrote in his diary that he bore the brunt of the sailor's ridicule for quoting Scripture as final authority. His observation of finch beaks on varied islands go him wondering why they were so different.
We will then follow the theory after Darwin's time through the Scope's Monkey Trial, neoDarinism, punctuated equilibrium, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. We will then take a look at the beginnings of the intelligent design movement.
Lecture 2: Lessons from Life
In the Lessons from Life lecture, we will divide the content in to the process of evolution and evidence of evolution that is listed in my son's college textbook and in the textbooks that are currently used in secondary schools.
The evidences listed in these texts can be categorized into 4 groupings: Fossils, embryology, structural homology, and bio and beyond. The following slides were created for this lecture series ...
The evidences listed in these texts can be categorized into 4 groupings: Fossils, embryology, structural homology, and bio and beyond. The following slides were created for this lecture series ...
No Lab in this module
Though there is not a lab, you may want to take a fieldtrip to a natural history museum and discuss the evolutionary content of the displays.