Darwinian View Of Life Flashcards

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Greek philosopher Aristotle believed…

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Evolution dosent exist.

Aristotle = asshole

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Carlos Linnaeus did…

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Created taxonomy and binomial (Latin words)

Linnaeus created lines (taxonomy lines)

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Georges cavier believed…

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Extinction occured but evolution did not

‘Cavier cant believe’

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James Hutton proposed….

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Features could be explained through grandual changed eg hills and rivers

Hutton the hill button

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Jean baptists de Lamarck

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Created the two theories - ‘use and disue’
Also inheritance to offspring

Lamarck so smart with theories

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Charles Darwin did…

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Went to Galápagos Islands and studied finches and stuff. Published the origin of species

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The two main ideas of the origin of species was…

Think diversity and adaptation

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The evolution explains life’s unity and diversity

That natural selection is the mechanism of adaptive evolution

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Who influenced Charles Darwin

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Hutton and lyell’s

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