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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Wrote the classic book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Argued that major advances in science are rare and that true scientific revolutions involve fundamental changes in the way we think.

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Thomas Kuhn

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Wrote, The origin of Species. Presented two revolutionary ideas. Realized that we descended from previously existing species, and species and their environments are a study of natural selection

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Charles Darwin

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a gradual process in which forms that are better suited to their environment increase in frequency over long periods of time.

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natural selection

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wrote “ nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” because of Darwins theory

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Dobzhansky

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CHANGE over time
change in allele frequency
mutations lead to changes in phenotype

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evolution

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6
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changes in the DNA sequence
sometimes mutations can be good and change fitness for the better. most times this doesn’t happen
the result is evolutionary change by selection

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mutations

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7
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observable measurable characteristics of organisms

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phenotype

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8
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major transitions

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the evolution of the prokaryotic cell, evolution of eukaryotic cell, evolution of multicellularty

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9
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naming of organisms

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taxonomy

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10
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evolutionary history

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phylogeny

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11
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When was Darwin born

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Same as Abraham Lincoln

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12
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introduced Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

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LaMarck

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13
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His Grandfather had been a leader in the development of evolutionary thought

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Darwin’s

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14
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His father (Robert) was a rich doctor and financier
His mother (Susannah) was part of the Wedgwood family -famous for pottery
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Darwin

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  • went to premier medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland

Hated the brutality of surgery - couldn’t stand the sight of blood

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Darwin

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16
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he spent more time in natural history classes
Learned taxidermy from a freed black slave (John Edmonstone) who was instrumental in developing his belief that Africans and Europeans were closely related

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Darwin

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17
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worked with Robert grant in studying homology and common decent

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Darwin

18
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1827 - father was upset at his lack of progress and moved him to Christ’s College, England

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Darwin

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was hired as a ships gentleman

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Darwin

20
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Darwin was hired as a friend to this captain, to keep him company.

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Captain Robert FitzRoy -just 26 years old

21
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wrote “Principles of Geology” from FitzRoy

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Charles Lyell

22
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First stop - island of St. Jago where he saw a volcano with cooked corals far from the beach
Eventually would propose the explanation for coral atoll formation - sinking volcanoes

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Darwin

23
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Set about to write Volume 3 of FitzRoy’s account

of the Beagle

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Darwin

24
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chastised Darwin for not putting island on the birds he collected in the Galapagos - Darwin’s finches

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John Gould (ornithologist)

25
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Who did Darwin marry

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Emma Wedgwood (his 1st cousin) in 1839
• She was a devout Anglican and was not too happy about his ideas on transmutation - afraid that they would not be together in heaven
26
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said you can’t possibly say such things until you have studied the taxonomy of something in detail
He meant it as a joke - Darwin spent the next 8 years studying barnacles

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Hooker

27
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

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1844: published anonymously (Robert Chambers\
Paved the way for Darwin
Sedgwick: “…If the book be true, the labours of sober induction
are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustic; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!”

28
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we can view all species that live or ever have lived as forming a vast branching tree of relationships known as…

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tree of life

29
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represents a species that is currently living in the world today or has gone extinct

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phylogenic

30
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hypothesized that humans share a common ancestor with great apes

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Darwin and Huxley

31
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which genes are turned on and off

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gene expression

32
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who proposed the model of sex ratios

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hypothesized by Darwin, fully developed by fisher

33
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Grandfather had been a leader in the development of evolutionary thought

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Darwin

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Darwin received an early copy of Volume 1 of Charles Lyell’s “Principles of Geology” from

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Fitzroy

35
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was incredibly seasick

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Darwin

36
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took his own life

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Fitszroy

37
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said he would rather have an ape than a ignorant person for a grandfather

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Huxley

38
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argued that if you find a watch, there must be a watch maker

• Today, we call this the “Intelligent Design” movement

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William Paley

39
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came up with uniformitarianism

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Charles Lyell

40
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came up with struggle for existance

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Darwin

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