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Theory of Evolution

    TABLE OF CONTENTS             Page

INTRODUCTION ............................................... 2

DARWINIAN THEORY OF EVOLUTION .............................. 4

THE THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION:
            CONTRIBUTING ELEMENTS ....................... 7

WALLACE'S CONTRIBUTIONS ................................... 13

HARDY-WEINBERG PRINCIPLE .................................. 15

COMPARISON: LAMARCK vs. DARWIN ........................... 16

DARWIN'S INFLUENCES ....................................... 20

METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC DEDUCTION ........................... 23

LIMITS TO DARWIN'S THEORY ................................. 25

MORPHOLOGICAL & BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS ....................... 27

BIO-EVOLUTION: POPULATION vs. INDIVIDUALS ................ 29
   
MECHANISMS FOR GENETIC VARIATION .......................... 31

GENETIC VARIATION AND SPECIATION .......................... 35

DARWIN'S FINCHES .......................................... 37

SPECIATION vs. CONVERGENT EVOLUTION ....................... 39

CONCEPT OF ADAPTATION ..................................... 41

PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM .................................... 43

VALUE/LIMITATIONS: THE THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION .... 45

ALTERNATE EXPLANATIONS OF BEING ........................... 47

CONCLUSIONS ............................................... 48

    INTRODUCTION

    Theories explaining biological evolution have been bandied about since the ancient Greeks, but it
was not until the Enli...

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