Week 3 Post 5

Naturally Selected

These magazines deal with the fathers of evolution. You have Darwin who said that the strongest survive the longest, which was later modified to say the strongest survive to reproduce. Then you have Mendel who figured the genetics, which was almost like an extension of what Darwin did. And finally Wallace who kind of combined the two to put natural selection, and genetics together. Darwin of course did his most famous work with the Galapagos Finches, Mendel had his peas, and Wallace working with biogeography.

I am most interested in the relationships between these three men. First you have Mendel and Darwin, and again Mendel gives a way for Darwin's theories to work through genetics. Then you have the most interesting relationship, and that is between Darwin and Wallace. The entire reason why Darwin published On the Origin of Species was because if he didn't Wallace was going to take the credit for his findings. These men all fed off of each other and gave birth to modern biology in my opinion.