Monkey

Am I allowed to ask for assignment help? Admins please just delete this if this is inappropriate.

I have an assignment for uni about Lamarck and Darwin. Does anyone have any fairly in depth information about both of their ideas on biological evolution? (Journals preffered)

I was planning to compare their ideas to what was known in their time and then move onto the neo-darwinian synthesis with genetics etc. We also have to illustrate the differences in their thinking with a specific phylum aswell.

Doubting Didymus

what year of uni are you in, and what course?

(and what uni?)

Wounded King

Why don't you just do a pubmed search Monkey?

Books would probably be a better source than Journals though, since its all historical now, can't you just search your library's catalogue.

Peez

One of the reasons that you are being given this assignment is no doubt to learn research skills. Thus, it is fine to seek advice or perhaps clarification, but you should dig up the material for yourself.


Peez
(who teaches at a university)

Monkey

I'm in second year doing a degree in Biological Science with a second major major in Conservation Biology at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.

I managed to dig up some articles on Proquest from the journal Science as well as some uni websites but our lecturer usually doesn't like too many websites as references. We have copies of Science, Nature, American Scientist and a few others back to the 50s. Absolutely no books in our library though...

Can do. Just though someone might have read a few books or something.

reprise

It looks to me like your university library is fairly well resourced, not to mention the fact that you can also access the inter-library loans system and the State Library.

My daughter had to do an assignment on this very subject last year and although she used many websites, most of those websites had bibliographies which then allowed her to chase up specific journal articles and books.

Nic Tamzek

Basically all of Darwin's writings are freely online here:

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/

Good short biography there.


Other online texts by famous dead guys are listed here:
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/char...ther_texts.htm

Including Lamarck, apparently:
http://www.lamarck.net/

(although these appear to all be in French, which might be inconvenient)

...but if this is just a short essay on the difference between Lamarckian and Darwinian evolution, just check any textbook.





And...

Wow, check this out. Wallace wrote an essay rebutting Herbert Spencer and other fans of inheritance of acquired characters in 1893:

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S468.htm

...Mendel hadn't quite been rediscovered yet but Weismann was on the case at this point and Darwin's "pangenes" theory was already out.

I'm constantly amazed at the clarity of thought and writing that some of these 19th century scientists had. They don't make 'em like this so much anymore...

John Wendt

Try S.J. Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny , call number 576.88 GOU.