Unit Three Evolution and Natural Selection课件.ppt

Part Summary Para [1]-[2] Para.1. Before the emergence of Darwins organic evolution, the idea of evolution had been known to some people, starting from Greek philosophers to Bacon and Herbert Spencer in modern times who came to be aware that the complicated animals have developed from simpler ones. Para.2. Lamarcks theory that modifications would be inherited and reproduce a type had great influence on the subsequent naturalists and some other activities. Part Summary Para. [3]-[4] It is Malthus on Population that gives Darwin the clue that favorable variations will tend to be preserved while