What was interpreted as the work of a god?
adaptation
what did William Paley say?
organisms were perfectly adapted to the lives they led
who's idea did that shadow?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
what exactly did he argue?
God had brought about the best of all possible worlds.
Who made fun of that idea?
Voltaire
what woirk?
Dr. Pangloss
how many meanings does adaption have in biology?
three
name one
the dynamic evolutionary process
what does that improve?
evolutionary fitness
what's the 2nd meaning?
a state reached by the population
when?
during that process
lastly?
a phenotypic or adaptive trait
what type of role does that play
a functional role
how is the trait developed?
natural selection
what do living things face?
a succession of environmental challenges
when?
as they grow
what allows them to develop?
adaptive plasticity
in response to what?
the imposed conditions.
what does this do?
gives them resilience
What did David Hulme write?
Bridgewater Treatises