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What did Darwin consider the two main points embryology established? |
1.Vertebrate embryos are not more alike than the vertebrate adults 2.The younger the embryos, the greater the resemblance |
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What did Ernst Haeckel contribute to embryology? |
-vertebrate embryos drawn |
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Adam Sedgwick’s (1894) challenged which two of Darwin’s claims? |
1.Vertebrate embryos are not more alike than the vertebrate adults 2.The younger the embryos, the greater the resemblance |
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Adam Sedgwick said that he could distinguish a duck from a chicken embryo on which day? |
second |
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What did Michael Richardson do in 1997? |
-photographs of vertebrate embryos |
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Stephen Jay Gould wrote |
“We do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks.” |
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What does Biogeography study? |
-the study of the distribution of populations and species across the globe -attempts to determine the evolution (adaptation) and dispersal of organisms-it traces origin of group through radiation out to current location of species |
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Why are Galapagos animals similar to animals in South America? |
mockingbird evolved from a similar species; population genetics |
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Why are Galapagos animals different from animals in South America? |
-adaptations: changes that worked well in different island environments |
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Fixity of species |
-no change in anatomy -no change in place (migration) -this view is not a rival today |
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Which definition of evolution does Galapagos mockingbird radiation support? |
-population genetics |
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Microevolution |
-orchard of trees -polyphyletic view |
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Macroevolution |
-one tree -monophyletic view |
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Where are the oldest fossil marsupials found? |
-China and N. America |
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What did Georges Cuvier say about migration and adaptation? |
-no change in place (migration) -attempts to determine the evolution (adaptation) |
