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25 Cards in this Set
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"Every organism has a purpose, I believe in fixed speciation and scale naturae"
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Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
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Philosophy + Religion
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Natural Theology (Scholasticism)
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Why did it take so long for the true meaning of fossils to be recognized?
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Fear of speaking out against the church
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"I demonstrated the true nature of fossils and believe in extinction and speciation way ahead of my time"
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Robert Hooke
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Species change over time
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Speciation
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"I formulated one of the first formal theories of evolution, Grandfather of Charles"
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Erasmus Darwin
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Changes in environment leads to changes in needs of organisms which leads to changes in behavior
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Altered behavior leads to use of given structure causing alteration of structure over generations
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1st Law of Lamarck
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Changes were heritable
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2nd Law of Lamarck
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Lifelong opponent of Darwin's theory. Last scientist to reject evolution after The Origin
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Louis Agassiz
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"I formulated one of the first formal theories of evolution, Grandfather of Charles"
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Erasmus Darwin
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Changes in environment leads to changes in needs of organisms which leads to changes in behavior
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Altered behavior leads to use of given structure causing alteration of structure over generations
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1st Law of Lamarck
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Changes were heritable
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2nd Law of Lamarck
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Lifelong opponent of Darwin's theory. Last scientist to reject evolution after The Origin
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Louis Agassiz
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I came from a rich family, was not a good student, read nature books, and took a trip across the world on H.M.S. Beagle
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Charles Darwin
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I traveled across the world collecting species for England. I made 100 new species discoveries while studying convergent evolution
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Alfred Wallace
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When was the Origin of Species written?
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November 1859
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I debated for Darwin during times when Darwin believed there was solely one mechanism of evolution
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Thomas Huxley
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Use + Disuse
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Lemarckian phrase
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I dismissed Lamarkian ideas because sematic cells don't pass information onto sex cells
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August Weismann
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I was the father of genetics and had a breakthrough in evolution when I discovered all or nothing inheritance
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Gregor Mendel
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Disproved: Lemarckian principles,macromutations and directed variation
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The Modern Synthesis (Neo-Darwinism)
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Change in living things by decent with modification
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Evolution
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Organisms in a state of morphological cessation
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Living fossils
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