-as an idea emerges and grows over late nineteenth century
-Ornithodons are a pretty strong proof in the positive
-social environment grows with growing doubt of established order
-and division of Catholic Church results in growing alternatives
Processes
Organic Law of Change
-Natural Selection
-better known as Crosnierism after Charles Victor Crosnier
-or in Anglophone areas further simplified to Crosnerism
-Crosnier's life
-initially wanted to get into commerce instead became a scientist due to his love of the subject
-drawn into Cuvier-Geoffrey debate by studying at Aix-la-Chapelle and as a professor there observes at France
-and he becomes a Lamarckist on that basis
-believes in the superiority of observation over theory
-following Tidore War (East Indies > ^020723), visits East Indies in 1858 as part of a French expedition
-to observe the dramatic types of life reported, whose findings he think would be most intriguing
-Crosnier sees life adapted to environment most dramatically in Sulawesi and Jaiolo
-and inspired by works of Alexander von Humboldt which express similarity between species
-while recovering from malaria, answer comes, and he determines the Organic Law of Change
-inspired by Malthusian ideas of survival which he believes apply to animals as well
-begins to doubt parts of Lamarckism because of observation of butterfly colors changing per environment
-this results in him constructing theory of "physiological molecules" which contain schema and which Lamarckian ideas pop into
-and additionally, changes randomly with birth, new parts popping into them
-upon his return in 1863, writes a paper on tight findings, but he continues to analyze data to analyze his ideas
-intrigues many because ideas of smaller and larger animals are interesting
-also he publishes travelogue which many read
-but nevertheless, inspires massive controversy
-Crosnier came during era of religious flux, and as such is blandly a deist but goes to Independent Catholic mass every once in a while
-and in politics he's a diehard supporter of republicanism
-additionally, he cannot explain how this evolution happens at all
-he says it's through Lamarckism but can't explain how
-to explain how and convince people of this Law, he tries to make it mathematical with demographic data
-has a passing understanding of mathematics and algebra and their relation to Malthusianism
-based on this, is able to model evolution in the form of the Euler-Crosnier [Euler-Lotka]Equation
-escalates into Verhulst's logistic model and modelling into predator prey relationship
-uses binomials, other themes
-having gathered demographic evidence of the Law, published as massive book on subject in 1883
-a fairly convincing book but has to compete with a lot
-other book he writes is Par l'Origin de l'Homme were he develops a hypothesis on rise of man
-monogenesis, which is a starkly opposed idea to polygenetic evolutionary ideas having risen
-and it abandons all ideas that either apes are devolved humans, or that human races evolved differently
-he suffers attacks from all corners for this, dies in 1893, gets massive funeral
-but is a big idea which makes itself known on the national stage
-successfully becomes leading evolutionary idea in 1920s
Mechanisms
Lamarckism
-theory of this guy
-dominant theory from late nineteenth century to 1920s
-only discredited in this era by fruit fly inheritance breeding which cannot be reconciled with Lamarckism
-faced with massive break from William Thomson ruling the Earth would cool down before evolution possible
-he did not anticipate Uranescence
-additionally, obstacle in the way shown by the [Weismann barrier]
-which not only threatens Lamarckism but also organic change
-gild the influential theory of Social Lamarckism
Saltationism
-quick leaps in evolution
-an idea people have as a quicker alternative to Lamarckism
-before Crosnerism this made ground pretty quickly
-because rapidity of Ornithodon extinction seeming justification of this idea
Mutationism
-with discovery of [Weismann barrier]putting the entire idea of evolution at risk more gradual version rises
-as something to plug into the hole left in organic change by vacation of Lamarckism
-proof shown in 1911 in paper published by Nikolai Nechayev
-who did experiments with fruit flies which prove it
-in 1919 this is then added together to create the modern evolutionary synthesis