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19 Cards in this Set
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James Hutton |
estimated earth was millions of years old |
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Thomas Malthus |
believed human population will grow beyond space and food |
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Jean Lamarck |
first to propose organisms change over time |
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Charles Lyell |
proposed some process today helped shape earths geological features |
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Alfred Wallace |
studies almost identical to Darwins |
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what ideas about competition and recourses in human populations did Malthus propose? |
population would outgrow food and space |
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what theories about the age of the earth and how it was formed did Lyell and Hutton propose that influenced Darwins thinking? |
the earth wasn't only thousands of years old but millions |
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what was Lamarck right about? |
adaptations are related to the environment |
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what was innocent about lamracks theory? |
organisms didn't have an urg to get better |
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What book did Darwin publish? |
On the Origin of Species |
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what kinda of evidence support Darwins theory? |
artificial selection, fossil records, geographic dostribution, homologous structures and vertical organs, embryology, DNA, natural selection |
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what does the fossil record tell us about the history of life? |
organisms evolve |
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fitness |
how well an organism can survive and reproduce |
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natural variation |
when some animals inherit better adaptations than others |
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common descent |
"tree of life" all connected |
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another word for survival of the fittest |
natural selection |
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how does the structure of human chromosome #2 support Darwins theory |
it shows that the banding pattern in chromosome #2 is the same as #47 and #48 chromosomes in apes. there are telomeres in the middle of #2 and the idea. that #2 is fused together |
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adaptive radiation |
another name for divergent evolution. AKA species have a common ancestor but evoke to fit their ecosystems |
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convergent evolution |
different species sharing similar characteristics and being distantly related |
