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20 Cards in this Set
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PLATO:
believe in Idealism: |
Variations in plant and animal populations were merely imperfect representatives of ideal forms
Evolution would be counterproductive in a world |
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Aristole
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Recognizing that organisms vary from simple to complex and can be placed on scale
species are not evolved |
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creationist–essentialist
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Natural Theology: god plan can be revealed by studying nature
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Carolus Linnaeu
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Taxonomy and binomial nomenclature
grouping the species into categories and ranking into hirarchy. similar species are group into same group and genera in same order |
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fossil
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relics r impression of organism fromt he past preserved in rock
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strata
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may layers of deposits
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peleontology- Georges cuvier
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fossils recored history
stratum speaks their own terms extinction is common in history |
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catastrophism
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theory that major changes in the earth surface are the result of catastrophic events
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CUVIER-> why nes wpecies
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catastrophes caused mass instinction
new species came from other areas |
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gradualism JAME HUTTON
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principle that profound change is cumulative product of slow and continous process
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uniformitarianism CHARLES LYELL
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geological processes are uniform and have operated from the origin of the earth to present
rates and effects have to be balanced out through time building mountains process balanced by erosion of the moutains |
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DARWIN opinions about LYELL's idea
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aggred upon:
earth is old slow process over great length of time cause substantial change |
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LAMARCK
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As organisms attained perfection, they became better adapted to their environments
evolution responded to organism's sentiments interieurs ( felt needs) |
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LAMARCK
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USE AND DISUSE: the body used to cope with the environment become larger and stronger while those not used deteiorate
inheritance of acquired characristics: modification of an organism acquired during its lifetime could be pass along to its offsprings |
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Pop- the smallest unit can be evolved
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a group of interbreeding individuals belonging to a particular species and sharing a common geographic area
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Adaptive change
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natural selection is situational
the beak evolution in beagles does not result from inheritance of acquired characteristic |
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biogeography
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the geography distribution of species
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homologous structure
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structures that are similar because of common ancestry
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vestigial organs
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organs that had important function in ancestral form but are no longer esential
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continental drift
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the movement of Earth's surface overtime
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