Origins Theme 2

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These researchers proposed a mechanism for gradual change in species in the 1850s.

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Darwin and Wallace

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This mechanism for evolution says that life changes because creatures over-produce: they vary; some variations provide an advantage; variations are inheriable, so advantageous ones are passed on more often.

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Natural Selection

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This is the name of the ship aboard which Darwin served as naturalist.

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H.M.S Beagle

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This term refers to a fator that can lead to "speciation," and usually results from geographical or physical developments that cause barriers or distance between members of a species.

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Reproductie Isolation

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This trial tested a Tennesse Law banning the theory of evolution from high school classrooms. Where was it?

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Scopes Trial. Dover, PA

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This writer argued in THE GENESIS FLOOD that the earth and life on it were created in six 24-hour days.

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Henry Morris

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Tis English clergyman proposed ending help to poor children to discouragethe population disaster he predicted if they continued to reprodce.

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Thomas Malthus

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These industrialists promosted Social Darwinism in the United States.

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Rockefeller, Kallog, Carnegie

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This Egnlish sociologist opposed social welfare measures because he thought the lower classes were inferior and should not be allowed to hamper the chances of the upper, "fitter" classes.

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Herbert Spenser.

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This scientist attempted to put the history of the universe in familar terms.

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Carl Sagan

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This poet, in the face of a friend's death, wonders whether humans will become extinct as the geological record shows other animals have.

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Lord Alfred Tennyson

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This Victorian writer argued that the earth only appears old and that "fossils" were placed on earth to test our faith.

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Gosse

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This Victorian clergyman, in THE PENTATUCH AND THE BOOK OF JOSHUA CRITICALLY EXAMINED, concluded that the first five books of the Bible could not be seen as historically accurate.

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Bishop Colenso

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This author warned that pesticides could change habitts faster than animals can adapt.

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Rachel Carson

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This is the name of the twin babies the monkeys sent to the farmer in the Yoruba myth about twins.

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Abiku

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This hypothesis suggests that the earth as an interdependent whole is alive, self-maintaining, and self-regulating, like a "super" organism.

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Gaia

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This pesticide was intended to control agriculturaly harmful insects, but it actually created armies of resistant bugs.

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D.D.T

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This scientist believe that giraffes had long necks because they had to stretch to reach the trees. What is this theory called?

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Lamark. Aquired Characteristics