Chapter 2 Flashcards
1
Q
What was Empedocles idea about animals forms?
A
Body parts came together to form them
2
Q
What was Anaximander’s model of the world?
A
Earth was in a cylinder disc. Inside a bowl of fire.
The importance of this is that they tried drawing an explanation based on natural observations instead of a supernatural phenomenon
3
Q
Def Methodological naturalism
A
To explain the world based on a natural phenomenon
4
Q
Def Catastrophism
A
belief that Earth’s major geological features arose through large catastrophic events
5
Q
Spontaneous generation:
A
life comes from non living matter
6
Q
Saltationism:
A
evolution via large changes from the norm Pg 53
7
Q
What did modern/evo synthesis demonstrate?
A
- genes pass intact even when not express in phenotype
- sexual repro is key to contributing to producing massive genetic variation
- some traits are result of multi. genes
- many changes in genotype affect phenotype variation in phenotype is raw material for natural selection
