module 4 (part 1)

Question 1

are human mummies fossils?

Answer 1

no. humans arent extinct

Question 2

Fixity of species

Answer 2

all modern organsims are unchanged descendants of their ancestors

thinking 1000yrs not millyrs

Question 3

what is a fossil record?

Answer 3

all fossils found & described in the scientific literature

Question 4

how did George Cuvier develop a system to classify animals

Answer 4

used comparative anatomy

Question 5

Why was george louis Leclerc publicly rejected?

Answer 5

he thought one secies could evolve into another

Question 6

Erasums Darwin

Answer 6

aware the modern species were different from fossil types - he started getting into selective breeding BUT still did not know what caused evolution

Question 7

how did George Cuvier interperet fossils

Answer 7

proposed that specices from fossils that are no longer here died from natural catastrophies (extinctions)

Question 8

How did Jean Baptiste Lamarck interperet fossils

Answer 8

the layers are the top of sediment were younger thn the bottom ones

he had 3 important concepts:

1. new species appeared gradually
2. all species have changed at different rates
3. specief do not appear after they go extinct

Question 9

what was charles darwins idea of evolution

Answer 9

over mills of yrs species arose from pre-existing species by process of “decent with modification”