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21 Cards in this Set
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Evolution States that?
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Heritable change is occurring in some line of descent
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Evolution Does?
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Explains life’s Diversity
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Evolution Doesn’t?
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Explain how life began
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1. Aristotle
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Chain of Being
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2. Hutton
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Developed Uniformitarianism
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3. Cuvier (2)
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-Compared living species with fossils
-Catastrophism |
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4. Lamarck (3)
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-Origin of Species
-Unknown Fluida -Enviornment Changes phenotype not genotype |
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5. Darwin (2)
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-Darwin's Theory: A population can change over time when individuals differ in one or more heritable traits that are responsible for differences in the ability to survive and reproduce.
-Descent with Modification |
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6. Lyell(2)
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- Lyell's Principles of Geology
-theory of Uniformity |
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7. Wallace (2)
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-Father of biogeography
-Naturalist who promoted Darwin to present ideas in paper |
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8. Malthus
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-Natural Selection
-Prinicple of poulation 1. Ind. Members of a pop. are diff. 2. every member is competing for resources 3. Those that can obtain resources survive and reproduce |
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Chain of Being
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- all species were created in one place at one time
-each organism is distinct from all the rest (Aristotle) |
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Uniformitarianism
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Process of erosion & sedimentation produce changes on earth
(Hutton) |
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Catastrophism
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Catastrophes occurred and survivors repopulated
(Cuvier) |
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Unknown ‘fluida’
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Life was created long ago in a simple state and has just improved
(Lamarck) |
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Theory of Uniformity
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Subtle, repetitive processes of change had shaped Earth
(Lyell) |
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Principle of Superposition
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-Layers closest to the top were younger.
-Bottom layers held older fossils. |
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Descent w/ Modification
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Gradual change from an ancestral form
(Darwin) |
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Natural Selection
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Differences in reproduction among individuals of a population vary in shared traits
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Aritificial Selection
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Human Select Trait
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Evolution & Population (4)
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1.Populations Evolve
2.Biological evolution only changes population 3. Traits in population vary among indivduals 4. Evolution is change in frequency of traits. |
