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LEC 2 VOCAB Flashcards

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William Paley

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Argument from Design - must be a God!

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Jean-Baptiste de Lamark

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Coined the term evolution; Inheritance of acquired characters; spontaneous generation of simplest form

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Charles Darwin

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First to come up with complete theory of evolution; discovered natural selection (so did Alfred Russel Wallace)

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Discovered natural selection; an evolutionary mechanism

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Lyell

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Earth gradualism/ uniformatarianism; Book Principles of Geology; the forces that shape the Earth are the same as eons ago

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Thomas Malthus

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Book An Easy Principle of Population; populations grow exponentially, resources don’t

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August Weismann

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Germplasm theory; inheritance only by germ cells, not somatic cells

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