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Which book provided the first complete theory of evolution by natural selection?
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"On the Origin of Species"
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What are Darwin's 2 Fundamental Insights?
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1) The environment selects on variation in the traits of individual organisms.
2) All species have descended from one or a few common ancestors. |
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Where do species come from?
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All living creatures derive from one or a few common ancestors.
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Lamarck's theory was _________________________, while Darwin's theory was a branching tree of life.
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an independent progression--species evolve independently in a parallel
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The branching pattern of descent explains the _____________ patterning seen in nature.
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hierarchical
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Which scientist found that inherited factors that form the basis of traits come from both parents and had experimental work in genetics?
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Gregor Mendel
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What is the name of the phylogenetic tree that captures the historical relationships among life forms?
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Tree of Life
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Who was the Greek philosopher to be the first to develop a cosmology or systematic philosophical view of the world (created the first map)?
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Anaximander
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Who was the Greek philosopher who made contributions to logic, metaphysics, biology, etc., was a student of Plato, and is referred to as "The Philosopher"?
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Aristotle
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What term describes the "Ladder of Life" which is a concept based on the ideas of Aristotle that all species could be placed in order from "lowest" to "highest"?
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scala naturae
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Who was the Scottish geologist who is considered the founder of modern geology and is most famous for his principle of uniformitarianism?
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Charles Lyell
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What term describes the idea that natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, etc.) can alter the surface of the earth very quickly?
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catastrophism
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What is the term that describes the slow, gradual processes of the change in Earth's surface?
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uniformitarianism (Charles Lyell)
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What theory describes the idea that genes are passed on from parents to offspring in intact form? and who was responsible for this theory?
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Modern Synthesis; Gregor Mendel
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