Darwin Flashcards
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Darwin’s life?
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1809 Shrewsbury
Raised by aunt.
Lived in Kent
10 children - Emma wedgwood
2o book published
2
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Darwin’s early influences
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Radical thinkers and societies
Hunting/beetle collecting
Grandfather who wrote about evolution (Erasmus)
3
Q
What uni did he go to?
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Edinburgh - medical school. Zoology professor introduced him to Lamarckism.
4
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Lamarckism
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Changes in environment - needs of organism - behaviour - use of organ/structure.
Law of use and disuse
Law of inheritance or acquired characteristics.
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