History of Evolution as a Theory Flashcards

know Historical Figures behind evolution

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What is Biological Evolution?

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A change in the gene pool of a population over a long period of time

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Who was Erasmus Darwin and what was he famous for?

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Erasmus Darwin was a scientist, author and docter and was famous for his book ‘Zoonomia’

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What was ‘Zoonomia’ about?

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all life descended from a common ancestor, suggesting species change over time

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What is Lemark’s full name?

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Jean Baptiste Lemark

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What is lamarkism?

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The theory of use and disuse where an individual acquires changes to help survive. These changes were genetically encoded, passed onto offspring and then repeated

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What does the tendency of progression by Lemark imply?

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That living things become more complex as the evolve

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how long was Charles Darwin’s expedition on the HMS beagle?

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5 years

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Where did Charles Darwin notice different species of the same type of the Finch existed?

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The Galapogos Islands

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Who had similar ideas to Charles and had a theory of evolution by the process of natural selection?

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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What was the name of the book published by Charles Darwin?

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‘On the origin of species by means of natural selection’

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Why was Charles Darwin attacked by the Church?

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This theory supported idea of homo spiens

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