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9 Cards in this Set
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George-Louis Leclerc
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history of earth longer than 6000
observed vesitgial parts in animals suggested evolution |
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Jean Babtiste Lamark
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Inheritence of Acquired Characterisitics
"vital forces" inside every living things that help them adapt to the envirnment (was wrong) |
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George Cuvier
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Theory of Catastrophism- changes in the earths population of animals result of natural distasters
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James Hutton
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father of geology
uniformitarianism |
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Charles Lyell
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stated earth is always in motion, really old, raising and falling land masses explained earth's geology, rather than changes in sea levels
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Charles Darwin
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adaptive change
finches and evolution |
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Carolus Linnaeus
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1st classification system for living things.
he wanted to give every living species a name. He organized based on features, with the most specefic order being species, then to genera,and so on |
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Thomas Malthus
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Pinciples of Popylations, more people are born than could possibly survive
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3 Postulates of Darwinian evolution
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1. Struggle for Existence
2. Variation in fitness 3. Inheritence of variation: those that breed better pass their traits off to their offspring, so their offspring also get the advantageous traits. |
