Test 2 Subjects Flashcards

1
Q

Robert Fitzroy almost doesn’t allow Darwin on trip because he didn’t have the nose of a sailor

A

Physiogomy

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2
Q

Food increases more slowly than population

Influences Darwin

A

Malthus’ Prediction

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3
Q

Book that was a huge hit about natural selection by Charles Darwin
(Name and year)

A

Origin of Species

1859

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4
Q

Argument that geological change happened suddenly after major geological event such as Noah’s Flood
v.
nature gradually produces geological change

A

Catastrophism v Uniformitarionism

Darwin found data (seashells through all of a mountain) favoring uniformitarianism

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