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Design and Purpose

“Scala naturae” from simple to complex organism

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Aristotle

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Catastrophism

History of living organisms is recorded on layers of rocks containing fossils

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George Cuvier

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Fossils do not resemble modern organisms from previous era

Extinct vs. Extant

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Charles Bonnet

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“Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics”

A vital force drives organisms towards more complexity (environment)

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Jean De Lamarck

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Natural Selection
Selective Pressure
Variation in traits

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Charles Darwin

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Studied flora and fauna of Malaysia and Indonesia

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Alfred Wallace

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Organisms are descended with changes from common ancestors

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Descendant with modification

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Increased survival and reproduction of individuals better adapted to the environment

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Natural Selection

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Species produce more offspring than those that will/can survive

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Overproduction

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Individual organism share different traits and more favorable traits means higher chance of survival

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Variation

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Struggle for survival

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Competition for limited resources

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Organisms with the greatest combination of favorable traits lives and produce offspring

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Survival for reproduction

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Hybridization and interbreeding

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Carolus Linnaeus

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Count Buffon

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Georges-Louis Leclerc

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All life had developed from a single source

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Erasmus Darwin

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Actualism - contrast catastrophism

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James Hutton

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Uniformitarianism

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Sir Charles Lyell

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process where new species are formes

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speciation

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process where species that do not have adaptive traits no longer exist

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extinction

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preserved remains of an organism

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Fossils

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body parts trapped in sediments without being completely decomposing

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Compression

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All organic material is vaporized; heat and pressure is great

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Impression

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minerals like silica replaced the original tissues of the body

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Petrification

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formed by hardening of materials surrounding the buried organism followed by decay

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Molds and cast

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markings in soft mud and later hardened

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footprints or trails

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study of distribution of life forms revealed that organism evolve in one locale and spread to other areas

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biogeoraphy

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organism that have anatomical similarities when they are closely related because of common descendants

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comparative anatomy

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similarity in structures due to common acestors

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Homologous

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similarity in function of organs in different organisms

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Analogous

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stage where all vertebrates embryos are virtually identical to each other

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Phylotypic stage

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structure that is common to all vertebrates during the phylotypic stage

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pharyngeal pouches

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Speciation: there is reproductive isolation

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Divergent

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Speciation: due to parallel selection

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Convergent

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Speciation: one specie gradually changes and becomes a new specie

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phyletic

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slow but steady small changes in population leading to a new specie

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Gradualism

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long period of no change interrupted by short rapid change in population due to sudden change in climate

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Punctuated Equilibrium

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Speciation: species rapidly diverge into many species

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Adaptive radiation

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selective breeding of crops and animals

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Artificial selection

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process by which an ancestral species gives rise to diverse descendants

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Divergent evolution

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2/3 distinct species occupy similar habitat and develop similar traits

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Convergent and Parallel evolution

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genetic change in one organism inresponse to general change in another organism

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Coevolution

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Species population is low, less imminent extinction

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Threatened Phase of Extinction

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number of species are severely reduced

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Endangered Phase of Extinction

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end of lineage

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Extinct Phase of Extinction

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