'Buffon' presentation slideshows

Song: Part 2

Song: Part 2. Is song learning in birds a new concept?. Is song learning in birds a new concept?

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History of evolutionary thought 1 Pre-Darwinian background

History of evolutionary thought 1 Pre-Darwinian background. Greek philosophers. Anaximander 6th century BC Empedocles 5th century BC Plato 4th century BC Aristotle 4th century BC Pliny the Elder 1st century AD Lactantius 3rd century AD. Idealism Two coexisting worlds.

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We are

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Lamarck

The History of Evolution. Darwin. Lamarck. Cuvier. lion. Species. Species : group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring Different species rarely breed Interspecies (between different species) breeding often results in sterile offspring Ex: Horse x Donkey = Mule

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Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a naturalist and exponent of the scientific movement tied to the Enlightenment, his theories influenced generations of naturalists, in particular the evolutionary Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Buffon.

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Georges -Louis Leclerc , Comte de Buffon

Georges -Louis Leclerc , Comte de Buffon. Wrote a set of encyclopedias. Suggested Common Ancestry and an older earth. Suggested changes between isolated populations. Used vestigial organs as evidence that organisms changed over time.

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P-values for different alternatives

P-values for different alternatives. H a : p < p 0 . P-value = percentile of standard score of sample proportion. H a : p > p 0 . P-value = 1 - percentile of standard score of sample proportion.

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Buffon's Needle

Buffon's Needle. Ian T. Flockhart. (with images lifted from George Reese's Buffon's Needle presentation at: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html). hit = 1/2sin( ? ) >= D D = 0 to 1/2 gap ? = 0 to 180. Fun with Mathematica:. http://ian.flockhart.org.

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