Evolution Flashcards
Who is Galen of Pergamen
He inferred human anatomy based off of animals such as monkeys
Who is Andreas Versalius
He discovered importance differences between species and specialized with actual humans
Who is Nicholas Steno
He discovered superposition
Who is William Harvey
He worked on embryogenesis
Who is William Paley
He envisioned life as machines
Who is Carolus Linnaeus
He tried to organize life into a single artificial system
Who is Thomas Malthus
He talked of ways to ease poverty would allow the poor to have more children, increasing famine
Who is George Louis
He explained how a comet struck the sun and broke off what is Earth. Supported spontaneous life
Who is George Cuvier
Studied elephant fossils in Paris and it’s similarities to fossils around the world
Who is Jean Baptiste Lamarock
He inferred the theory of Use and Disuse. Proposing animals evolved this way
Who is Karl von Baer
Discovered similarities of the embryos of different species. Comparative embryology
Who is William Smith
He found that fossils were arranged in the same order from top to bottom
Who is Charles Lyell
Found gradual changes due to nature. Uniformitarianism. Basics to the rock cycle.
Who is Gregor Mendel
He discovered dominant and recessive alleles
Who is Charles Darwin
He had the theory of Natural Selection
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace
Theorized Natural Selection independently
Who is Ernst Haeckel
Added to concept to evolutionary life such as comparative embryology
Who is Alfred Wegner
Proposed that the continents were all once connected
Name the 3 types of selection
Natural - Sexual - Artificial
What are the three types of natural selection
Directional - Disruptive - stabilizing
Give an example of gene drift
Most of the species is wiped out, but few survive most times due to genetic differences
What is gene flow
Where a species is first separated and are now different, then reunited and mixed
Give an example of evidence of evolution
Comparative embryology
Fossil record
Comparative Anatomy
Adaptive radiation
What is convergent evolution
Organisms that’s not closely related, independently evolve with similar traits
