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Who is Galen of Pergamen

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He inferred human anatomy based off of animals such as monkeys

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Who is Andreas Versalius

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He discovered importance differences between species and specialized with actual humans

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Who is Nicholas Steno

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He discovered superposition

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Who is William Harvey

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He worked on embryogenesis

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Who is William Paley

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He envisioned life as machines

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Who is Carolus Linnaeus

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He tried to organize life into a single artificial system

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Who is Thomas Malthus

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He talked of ways to ease poverty would allow the poor to have more children, increasing famine

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Who is George Louis

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He explained how a comet struck the sun and broke off what is Earth. Supported spontaneous life

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Who is George Cuvier

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Studied elephant fossils in Paris and it’s similarities to fossils around the world

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Who is Jean Baptiste Lamarock

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He inferred the theory of Use and Disuse. Proposing animals evolved this way

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Who is Karl von Baer

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Discovered similarities of the embryos of different species. Comparative embryology

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Who is William Smith

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He found that fossils were arranged in the same order from top to bottom

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Who is Charles Lyell

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Found gradual changes due to nature. Uniformitarianism. Basics to the rock cycle.

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Who is Gregor Mendel

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He discovered dominant and recessive alleles

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Who is Charles Darwin

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He had the theory of Natural Selection

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Who is Alfred Russel Wallace

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Theorized Natural Selection independently

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Who is Ernst Haeckel

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Added to concept to evolutionary life such as comparative embryology

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Who is Alfred Wegner

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Proposed that the continents were all once connected

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Name the 3 types of selection

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Natural - Sexual - Artificial

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What are the three types of natural selection

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Directional - Disruptive - stabilizing

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Give an example of gene drift

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Most of the species is wiped out, but few survive most times due to genetic differences

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What is gene flow

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Where a species is first separated and are now different, then reunited and mixed

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Give an example of evidence of evolution

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Comparative embryology
Fossil record
Comparative Anatomy
Adaptive radiation

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What is convergent evolution

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Organisms that’s not closely related, independently evolve with similar traits

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Sympatric speciation

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Happens between closely related species and does not involve a geographic barrier

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Allopathic speciation

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Involves a geographic barrier

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Origin of new taxonomic groups

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Macro evolution

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Prezygotic

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Prevents mating from happening

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Postzygotic

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Prevent fertilization or prevent potential hybrids from passing on their genes

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The 4 prezygotic isolation mechanisms

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Habitat
Temporal
Behavioral
Mechanical

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The 4 postzygotic mechanisms

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Zygote dies
Hybrid unviability
Hybrid sterility
Low hybrid fitness

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What is an incipient species

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A group of organisms that is about to become a separate species from other, related individuals

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He discovered superposition

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Nicholas Steno

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He inferred the theory of Use and Disuse. Proposing animals evolved this way

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Jean Baptiste Lamarock

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Analogous structure

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Parts of different species with similar function but different structures
Different ancestors

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Homologous structure

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Similar features but have different function
Have a common ancestor

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