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15 Cards in this Set
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Karl Popper
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Science cant prove, can only disprove; All knowledge is provisional
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James Usher
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Irish priest who calculated the age of the world through the bible 4004 BC
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Great Chain of Being
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Aristotle's scheme that ranked organisms based on their intelligence, complexity, and importance.
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Developed the system called Taxonomy. Ranked creatures based on physical characteristics.
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Binomial Nomenclature
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Referring to animals by there genus and species
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Comte Buffon
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Proposed species changed through time; had no research.
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Erasamus Darwin
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Wrote Zoonomia, the first structured theories of Biological Evolution
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Georges Cuvier
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Opponent of evolution; Proposed Catastrophism: Animals are replaced with stronger ones
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James Hutton
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A Scottish geologist who opposed Catastrophism
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics; Evolution happens within the lifetime of an organism; Giraffe; Coined the term Biology
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Charles Lyell
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Proposed uniformitarianism, geological processes have occurred throughout all time
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Adaptive Radiation
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Species evolve into multiple lineages to meet new local environments
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genotype
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Genetic makeup of an individual organism
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phenotype
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An observable or measurable feature of an organism (describes organism as a whole)
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Alfred Russell Wallace
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Independently came up with the idea of natural selection
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