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18 Cards in this Set
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Theories |
-Creationism -Catastrophism -Uniformitatianism -Evolution -Intelligent Design -Eugenics |
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Creationism |
-World view until early 19th Century -Life forms can not change, they are stable this is known as "fixity of species" -Man is the top of great chain of being -Earth is relatively young |
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James Ussher -1581-1656 |
-The Earth was created October 23rd, 4004 B.C based on calculations |
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James Ray -1627-1705 |
-Naturalist -1st to propose that certain "species" can only mate within their species -Named it reproductive isolation |
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Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778 |
-First to classify plants and animals -Known as Taxonomy -Based his classifications on Body Structure Body Function Body Growth Placed primates and humans in the same order. Not suggesting any evolutionary link |
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Systema Naturae |
-Kingdom,Class,Order,Genus,Species, |
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Binomial Nomenclature |
Homo-Genus Sapiens-Species |
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Georges-Louis Ledere 1707-1788 |
-Wrote Natural History, believed that groups that migrated that migrated to different areas of the world they would be influenced by the local climate -Lead to the adaption in the species -Rejected the idea that one species could give rise to another |
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Microevolution |
-Variation within a particular species Scientific creationists agree with micro not macro evolution |
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Macroevolution |
-One species giving rise to another new species |
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Eramus Darwin 1731-1802 |
-Wrote zoo mania in which evolutionary ideas are proposed -Discussed how competition and sexual selection could account for change |
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Jean Baptiste Lamarack 1744-1829 |
-First to attempt to explain evolution -Inheritance of acquired characteristics -A species will physically change to meet the requirements for survival in its natural environment -Insisted upon a fixity of species |
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Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) |
-Catastrorphism -Founded paleontology -Leading opponent of evolution and the works of vamark -Natural disasters (fires, floods, earthquakes) destroyed any life form. God then recreated everything -Explain fossil finds Present species and fossil connects are explained by certain species escaping natural disasters |
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Charles Lyell (1791-1875) |
-Father of Geology. Wrote principles of geology -Earths structure has been modified through geological changes that have always occurred -Earth must be older than 6,000 years |
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Mary Anning (1799-1847) |
-Fossil hunter -Found Ichthyosaurus Pleiosaurus |
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Thomas Mathus (1766-1834) |
-Wrote essay on limits of human population growth -Human pop. can never exceed the amount of available resources Carrying Capacity |
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Charles Darwin (1809-1892) |
-On the origin of Species -Collected 13 different types of finches -Species arose from other species through a gradual process known as descent with modification -Named Natural Selection -Transmutation-change of one species to another |
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Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) |
-Sailed to Asia to collect plants and insect specimens -Noticed biological variation between the same species |
