Reading Primary Sources: Darwin and Wallace
Description
Student Learning Targets
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Evaluate claims based on information and evidence presented in a film and in scientific texts.
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Determine the central ideas and themes in historical and scientific texts.
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Participate in a collaborative discussion about the interpretation of information presented in historical and scientific texts.
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Key Terms
adaptation, common ancestor, competition, domestication, evolution, natural selection, population, reproductive success, species, variation
Primary Literature
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859.
Darwin, Charles. and Wallace, Alfred R. “On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 3, 9 (1858): 45–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1858.tb02500.x.
Wallace, Alfred R. “The Origin of Species and Genera (S322: 1880).” Nineteenth Century 7, 35 (1880): 93–106. http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S322.htm.
Wallace, Alfred R. “Variation and Natural Selection.” Nature 44, 1144 (1891): 518–519. https://doi.org/10.1038/044518b0.
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Version History
HS-LS4-1, HS-LS4-2, HS-LS4-4; SEP6
EVO-1.C; SP1, SP6
5.1, 5.2
Topic(s): 2.6
Learning Objectives & Practices: ERT-2.H, SP3
3.2
ELA.RST.9–12.1, ELA.RST.9–12.2, ELA.RST.9–12.4, ELA.RST.9–12.6, ELA.RST.9–12.8, ELA.WHST.9–12.1
CC1; DP1
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