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evolution |
descent with modification |
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scala naturae and aristotle |
proof of god & old testament because each species fit its environment unchanging nature linear hierarchy |
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carolus linnaeus |
developed binomial nomenclature and nested classification system |
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jean baptiste lamarck |
use & disuse: stronger/bigger and weaker/smaller parts based on use and inherited characteristics: passed down to offspring eg. giraffe |
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darwin |
the beagle galapagos/malay archipelago fossils reproduce origin of species |
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georges cuvier |
studied strata and fossils
believed in common extinction, not evolution |
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james hutton and charles lyell |
change over slow time (geographically) |
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alfred russel wallace |
technically published a theory of natural selection before darwin but let darwin take more credit |
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adaptation & natural selection |
inherited characteristics that help survival is a result of individuals having certain inherited traits that help survive and reproduce (passing on) |
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artificial selection |
artificial evolution used by farmers for plants/livestock/etc. |
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homology |
similarity in characteristics because of a common ancestry found by vestigial structures and genes |
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vestigial structures |
remnants of features that served a function in an organism's ancestors eg. tails |
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convergent evolution |
independent evolution of similar features in different lineages |
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analogous features |
opposite of homologous similar functions, different ancestry |
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biogeography |
scientific study of geographic distributions of species pangaea continental drift endemic species (found nowhere else in the world) |