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33 Cards in this Set
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Who is Buffon?
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Wrote "Histoire Naturelle" in which he suggested that the earth must be much older than the biblical claim of 6,000 yr, taxa "changed" through time as did the earth, i.e. there must be a connection between the geological and biological histories of earth.Very radical ideas at the time and over 100 years before Lyell’s and Darwin’s ideas (see below).
Made observations cited as the first "law of biogeography", i.e. Buffon's Law that climatologically similar, but geographically separate regions of the world has distinct biotic assemblages. Suggested "centre of origin" for earth’s biota was in the far north when climates were more benign, biotas changed and diversified as they colonised southward into present day North America and Eurasia. |
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Who was Cuvier?
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Earth goes through revolutions? Catastrophism
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Who was Lamarck?
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Aquired characteristics
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Who was Carl Linnaus?
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father of taxonomy....named everything Systema Naturae
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Who was J.F. BlumenBach?
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He classified human races by studying craniotomy. White race, yellow, red, black, brown etc.
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Who was Asa Grey?
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He was a friend of Darwin's, a botanist, tried to convince Darwin to go back to his faith and saw God in all things.
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Who was Aggasiz?
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A naturalist
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Gregor Mendal?
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father of genetics-pea experiments
Laws of Heredity recessivness and dominance |
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william batesman?
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catalogued unusual physical variations in animal specimens, and classified each variation as either a deviation from the expected number of a certain body part; or as one in which an expected body part has been replaced by another
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august weismann
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disproved lamarks theory
if you continue to cut off generations of mice tails they will keep growing back |
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Samuel Wilberforce
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theologian
-wrote on darwin -thinks darwins ideas contradict creation -"whether it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey" |
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john ray
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theologist
coined the word species taxonomist |
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james hutton
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theories of geologic time
uniformitarianism for creatures as well suggested natural selection |
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francis galton
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nature vs. nurture
founder of eugenics |
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george mivart
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creationist and critic of darwin
how can evolution explain the beginning stages? For example you cant fly with half a wing and how would that be an advantage to survive |
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Richard Owen
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critic of darwin
:The most numerous living beings now on the globe are precisely those which offer such a simplicity of form and structure, as best agrees, and we take leave to affirm can only agree, with that ideal prototype from which, by any hypothesis of natural law, the series of vegetable and animal life might have diverged.” |
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henry morris
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father of creation science
founded institute for creation research based his findings on a literal translation of hte bible young earth creationist fossils were animals that died during the flood |
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wendall bird
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attorney for creation institute and defended the equal time law
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michael behe
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known for irreducible complexity
-a concept that asserts that some structures are too complex at the biochemical level to be adequately explained as a result of evolutionary mechanisms. gave testimony in kitzmiller v. dover case |
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Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
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creation is a religion not a science
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phillip johnson
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father of intelligent design movement
-wrote darwin on trial |
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william dembsky
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uses specified complexity to justify intelligent deisgn, tries to argue that id is a science
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jonathan wells
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devotes his life to destroying darwinism
argues against evolution being taught in public school-kansas evolution hearings |
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blumenbachs theory of degeneration
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species can change over generations over heredity but these can alter or reverse
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Buffon says:
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organisms created in an internal mould, more active and more stable molecules in higher animals less likely to diversify
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Cuvier excepted:
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extinction as a fact but saw all organism created for their roles in the environment, unchanging
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soft heredity
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acquired characteristics
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hard heredity
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external causes irrelevant, no blending
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pangenesis
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created by darwin, parental gemmules blend together to create new offspring
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Epperson v. Arkansas
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arkansas refused to teach evolution in schools. this case invalidated this law
-violates first amendmant |
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edwards v. aguilard
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a louisiana law said that if evolution was taught in school then creation science must be taught as well
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balanced treatment acts
mclean vs. arkansas |
violates establishment clause, 1st amendment again. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
-creation science is religion not science |
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scopes trial
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tennesee law said that schools could not teach evolution
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