HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Flashcards
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argued that men arose from fishes
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Anaximander
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the ideal reality against which the perceived reality is compared and contrasted
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Essentialism
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placed all lifeforms in a hierarchical system of existence from lowest to highest
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Great Chain of Being
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Earth’s history is a product of sudden change
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Catastrophism
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Father of Taxonomy
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Carl Linnaeus
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processes occur at same rate through time
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Uniformitarianism
7
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postulated that the giraffes elongated their necks
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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
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Father of Evolution
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Charles Darwin
9
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Father of Genetics
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Gregor Mendel
10
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who discovered the structure of DNA
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James Watson and Francis Crick
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