📚 node [[charles darwin]]
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based his theory on two core ideas:
- [[chance variation]] -> [[random mutation]]
- [[natural selection]]
- all living organisms are related by common ancestry
- [[beagle]]
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Darwin knew not of a remedy to a problem of his theory: he thought heredity worked so that offspring received 50% of the traits of each ancestor, their offspring 25%, theirs 12.5%, etc.
- Darwin saw this as a flaw as it showed that positive traits would disappear very quickly after arising and being selected by chance.
- [[Mendel]] of course discovered the units of heredity, [[genes]].
- [[Mendel]] wrote to [[Darwin]] ()!), and allegedly Darwin didn't read the letter because it was in German and had too much math on it (!).
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based his theory on two core ideas:
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- public document at doc.anagora.org/charles-darwin
- video call at meet.jit.si/charles-darwin
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