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30 Cards in this Set
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Homology
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similarity, as a result of inheritance of traits
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Developmental homology
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we all look like every other animal basically
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Vestigial traits
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it’s there but unnessessary
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Plato
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Essentialism
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Essentialism
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You are everything that you make up. You are every atom that has less protons than you because.
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Aristotle
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All species are fixed and eternal, essentialism, the great chain of being
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Capernicus
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heliocentric view of the universe! (Keeps it hidden)
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Galileo
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Heliocentric view of the universe! (Gets jailed)
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Newton
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Math and physics
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James Ussher
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The earth was 5,668 years old. Created on Oct 26, 4004BC at 9am
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Linnaeus
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Swedish botanist. Systema Naturae, binomial nomenclature
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Hutton
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uniformitarianism. Earth had a molten core.
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Lamark
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Inheritance of acquired characters. No extinction. Built off of hutton. Orthogenesis, defended evolution
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Reverend William Paley
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Wrote Natural Theology. The dude with the weird watch saying (find a watch on the ground)
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Theologians and Naturalists
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typically they were the same person, because they were illustrating the glory of g-d
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Robert chambers
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worte a book on the vestiges of the natural history of creation
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Darwin
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Nerdy beetle collector who adored his older brother Erasmus. Became a clergyman, ended on the HMS beagle so the cap didn’t kill himself. Famous geologist, came home and sat on evolution for 20 years before publishing
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What were the major proposals in the origin of species?
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Descent with modification, tree of life, life is old, extinction is real, gradualism, species formation
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Russell Wallace
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Sent his papers about evolution to Darwin to check. Him and Darwin copublished.
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Why did Darwin stall publishing about evolution?
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Fear, credibility, and his cousin-wife
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What opportunity stopped Darwin from training to become a minister in the Anglican church?
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Do you want to travel on the Beagle?
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How was Darwin first introduced to geology?
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Rev. Adam Sedgwick, took him as an assistant for two weeks on summer fieldwork examining the earliest known rocks in Wales.
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Who was William Paley?
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A naturalist who wrote Natural Theology. Darwin set out to replace Paley’s ideas by setting out an entirely natural explanation for design.
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Explain the title “The Blind Watchmaker” What was the book about?
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A book by Richard Dawkins. It’s not a creator that makes the watch. It is a series of random events which build until you get something complex like a human or a watch.
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When did Darwin first become committed to the idea that life has evolved?
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5 months after the Beagle docked in England.
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What geologist influenced Darwin the most ON the HMS beagle, and what did they write?
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Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology
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Who is the co-discoverer of natural selection and what did he send Darwin?
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Russell Wallace. He sent Darwin his papers to be published on evolution.
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Did Darwin discuss the origin of humans in The Origin of Species?
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No
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Evaluate Darwin as an experimentalist. Who helped him the most?
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Huxley |
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experiments large in scale?
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Small scale. His family, also Thomas Huxley.
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