Evolution Flashcards
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What Makes Us Human?
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We walk upright.
We can communicate orally and with written language.
We can think and problem solve.
We have evolved, both physically and mentally.
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How did humans become the most dominant species on earth?
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- ## through examining fossils, cultural evidence and our DNA sceinetists figure out evolvations made us odminant
3
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Carolus Linnaeus
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One of the first anthropologists to organize and classify new species and cultures throuygh them looking simular
believed that God’s work was perfect and fixed
observed that plants could be cross pollinated and make plants that were related to the originals, but distinct.
4
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how did god works being fixed proved incorrect?
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- fossils show that animals have gone extinct
- if things stayed the same these animals would have survived
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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes
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- found evidence that humans made tools
- ## we have gained higher intelagence
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Charles Darwin
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- used fossils to show the past was diff from present
- found seashells on montains showing enviormental changes
7
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Natural Selection
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- found differnet variation of animals in galopoes island
- animals varied depending on enviorment
- animals devolped charteristics to be better suited to thier enviorent, thus reproducing and passing on traits
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Gregor Mendel
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- found that traits are dominat and ressecive (no blending)
9
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mutation
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- random mutation can happen when passing dna which can led a species to evolve if it helps with survival
10
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Raymond Dart
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- found a skull in africa showing stages of human evolvution
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