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Question 1

What is Descent with Modification

Answer 1

Change in Allele frequency over time.

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

The Great Chain of Being
Fixicity of Species
-species created in current form 
-no extinction/creation of new
-variation is noise around an ideal.

Question 3

Archbishop Usher

Answer 3

Natural theolgian, counted back to Adam and Eve. Gave Earth an age of 6000 years.

Question 4

Linneaus

Answer 4

1. Binomial Classification System
2. Classed Humans as Animals
3. Didn’t see descent - believed in Fixicity
4. Tree based on similarities - looks like phylogeny
5. First Explicit Racism.

Question 5

George Louis De Boufon

Answer 5

Comparative Anatomist and Biogeographist
Species can change to suit environment
Not evolution

Question 6

George Cuvier

Answer 6

Proposed the Idea of Extinction

Catastrophism - new creation after each catastrophy.

Question 7

Jean Baptiste de Marc

Answer 7

Mechanism for early evolution
Girraffes neck
Environment is a key factor.

Question 8

Thomas Malthas

Answer 8

Essay on Principles of Populations
Saw Popultions had greater reproductive potential than available food.
More born than survive.

Question 9

Charles Lyell

Answer 9

Principle of Geology
Theory of Uniformitarianism
- opposite of Catastrophism, events that happen now happen in the past.
-Implied an old earth.

Question 10

Darwins Evidence

Answer 10

1. Artificial Selection
2. Biogeography.
3. Paeleontology
4. Comparative Anatomy
5. Embryology.