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Although our evolutionary heritage has saddled us with some significant health problems, in the long run it has served us well…~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Variation drives the evolution of individuals But what happens to that variation at the level of the population?~bfleury/birds/birdlectures
History of Ornithology~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
The 1918 Flu 1 – a conspiracy of Silence~bfleury/birds/birdlectures
Life History 1 We envy birds their ability to soar above the mundane concerns of our daily lives Coloniality Are the robins we see in our front yard every year the same robins? They could very well be the same individuals~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Germ Theory Although our evolutionary heritage has saddled us with some significant health problems, in the long run it has served us well… In our last lecture, we looked at the ways that trade, travel, technology and agriculture can provide new habitats and new dispersal routes for microbes The Evolutionary Arms Race Remember the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland? The 1918 Flu 2 The Philadelphia Story The 1918 Flu 1 – a conspiracy of Silence So say the Laws of Manu, an ancient Brahmin text on moral conduct Man is a moral animal… Pandora's Box Remember the legend of Pandora's Box?~bfleury/birds/birdlectures
History of Ornithology Francis of Assisi First specimen was a single feather imprint in a slab of Solnhofen limestone Uncovered in a Bavarian quarry and acquired by Hermann von Meyer~bfleury/historyoflife/lectures
Dinosaurs 3 Several morphological features suggest dinosaurs relied on visual displays for communication, like modern animals~bfleury/envirobio/envirolectures
Global Climate Change 2 The Earth is a dynamic system~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Belief in evolution was widespread before Charles Darwin~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
In our last lecture, we watched our distant ancestors descend from the trees into a brave new world, filled with new evolutionary challenges~bfleury/envirobio/envirolectures
Before Darwin, scientists believed that all life had been specially created Once created, organisms could not change Environmental Racism in Louisiana Don’t Drink the Water !!~bfleury/birds/birdlectures
Migration Why do birds migrate?~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
The Germ of Laziness~bfleury/birds/birdlectures
Physiology II metabolic furnace of birds burns brightly~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Darwinian revolution removed man from the center of creation, as the Copernican revolution had removed the Earth from the center of the universe~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Autoimmunity Self Versus Self Christopher Columbus was a pioneer in more ways than one~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Phylum Nematoda Kingdom Animalia~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
The 1918 Flu 3 The Search for the Virus~bfleury/historyoflife/lectures
Cells to Organisms 3 Eukaryotic cell was a giant leap forward in the early history of life~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Old World to New~bfleury/envirobio/envirolectures
Humans as a species should fall under the logistic model of population growth Logistic model assumes~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
The Germ of Laziness Death by Chocolate There’s something romantic about riding on a train…~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Kingdom Plantae Plants are more like us than you might think Belief in evolution was widespread before~bfleury/envirobio/envirolectures
Global Atmospheric Change~bfleury/historyoflife/lectures
Id is nothing new latest attempt to put a modern face on some very old ideas is old wine in new bottles… The mystery of life itself… We each spend our own lifetimes trying to answer that question in our own way~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Human Evolution In the Origin of Species, Darwin goes out of his way to avoid mentioning human evolution~bfleury/historyoflife/lectures
The Discovery of Time The Discovery of Time We have made great progress in discovering the history of life on Earth Origin of Life 3 How could a system as complex as a living cell get started?~bfleury/birds/birdlectures
Population Regulation There are many limiting factors in nature that regulate the growth of populations~bfleury/envirobio/envirolectures
Thomas Robert Malthus born in 1766 near Guilford England (Albury Parish, Surrey) Second son of seven children~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Evolution is constrained it has to run in certain channels Evolution always has to work with whatever is already in place But there were many vexing problems Darwin couldn’t solve Among them was the problem of genetic diseases Stone Knives to Iron Plows The Rolling Stones summed it up nicely… What a drag it is, getting old~bfleury/darwinmed
Some Influences of the American Hookworm Suggested Reading ebio 2010 Invisible Realm~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Microbial Strategies~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Angiosperms Flowering Plants Charles Darwin called the evolution of the angiosperms “an abominable mystery” Origin of Life One of the world’s great mysteries how did life on Earth begin? Phylum Annelida Polychaetes, Earthworms, Leeches~bfleury/envirobio/envirolectures
Attitudes Towards Nature It is hard to understand the medieval attitude toward nature~bfleury/darwinmed/darwinmedlectures
Virulence Darwin and his Victorian contemporaries came to view nature as a battleground~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Kingdom Fungi~bfleury/historyoflife/lectures
Dinosaur Renaissance Most young boys (and many young girls!) play with dinosaurs~bfleury/diversity/diversitylectures
Predation Is peaceful coexistence the rule in nature?directory ~bfleury