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Evolution and Human Behaviour Flashcards

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What is the theory of evolution?

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A process that sees species survive, reproduce and change over time in response to environmental pressures

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Linnaeus wrote in…

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c. 1735

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Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae attempted too…

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classify all life on earth.

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Comte de Buffon wrote in…

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c. 1749

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Comte de Buffon said…

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living creatures evolve according to natural laws, said humans and apes are related - all life has descended from a single ancestor

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Lamarck wrote in…

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1908

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Lamarck’s view was…

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living things become more complex through time and traits are passed through generations

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Cuvier wrote in…

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1817

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Cuvier saw…

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catastrophes in fossil record. Showed mammoths were an old elephant relative that had gone extinct.

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Who proposed practical genetics?

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Farmer and Strockbreeder

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What are Farmer and Stockbreeder’s rules of thumb?

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1- stable varieties nearly always breed true
2- two different parents generate a hybrid which won’t breed true
3- occasional mutations even in stable varieties
4- sports can be backcrossed with normals to create new stable varieties

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Who proposed the theory of evolution?

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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace

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What was the original theory?

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On the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original Type (Wallace, 1858; never published)

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When was the Earth created?

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9am October 23rd 4004 BC (Ussher used to the Bible to work it out)

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Sarawak Law says…

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gradual geological changes are linked to animal and plant distribution

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The three main eras are…

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1- paleozoic
2- mesozoic
3- cenozoic

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What happens the deeper you go?

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Fossils get simpler

18
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What is evidence of common ancestry?

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Embryo similarities (dolphin embryos show signs of hind limbs, pythons have leg bones)

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What’s the evidence that species are not immutable?

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fossil records
homologies
embryologies
vestigal organs
animal distribution patterns

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