Western Civilization II / Unit 12 WC2 1107 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Darwin Shocked; The Descent of Man, 1871, and Mendel Rediscovered, 1900
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The idea
Darwin contradicted a static creation: nature was hostile, adaptation random, no plan. By eighteen seventy three-quarters of British scientists accepted it. The Descent of Man in eighteen seventy-one derived humans from hominids. Mendel's pea experiments, presented in eighteen sixty-five and forgotten, gave the mechanism when rediscovered in nineteen hundred.
In practice
The monkey caricatures of Darwin.
Where people slip
Figures are the anchor's; Mendel is anchor-only.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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