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Important benefit of this civilization was its spread of education
Romans
Man was commanded by God to _____ the earth
Subdue
Advocates speciation, founded comparative anatomy
Cuvier
Idea of a master race
Eugenics
Fossil bird
Archaeopteryx
Sequence of fossils in the earth’s crust
Geologic column
Unusual lobe fin fish
Coelacanth
Sudden outburst of living things
Cambrian explosion
Dog sized animal that is an ancestor of the horse
Eohippus
1675-Leuwenhoek discovered in microscope
Animalcules
Solution to scientific problem
Hypothesis
Ernest Heakel proposed as “proof” of evolution
Embryonic recapitulation
German evolutionist who came up with embryonic recapitulation
Ernst Haekel
Special kind of observation that involves testing theoretical speculation in a controlled and systematic way
Experimentation
Involves looking very close at the universe for the purpose of gaining scientific knowledge about it
Observation
A quasireligious idea that states that the earth all things constitute a single living thing
Gaia hypothesis
Idea that the present is the only key to the past
Uniformitarianism
Changes within a particular kind of organisms
Speciation
Process by which new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time
Macroecolution