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| -Believed that the earth has to be at least 75,000 years old |
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-1790
-Biologist that did field work
-Went down to the bottom of coal and slate mines where he found foxxils
-Not other scientists had found or cared about fossils before
-Found fossils from animals of the past that were not around anymore
-Many did not believe that there had been other species because they had not seen it before but now they had proof
- Raised a lot of questions |
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-1800's
-Best explaination for fossils was that things changed enough over time until people can not recognize them anymore
-First to say that things changed over time
- Inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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| Inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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-How things change
-People started to investigate other places like Africa and so they saw things that had never seen before like giraffes
-Fueled competitions in cities to make the best zoos
-Giraffes got their long necks from stretching to reach leaves and passed it on the future generations
-Lamarck was wrong but he was headed in the right direction; first to say that things change |
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-Son of wealthy landowner, lived a good life
-British government was going on a voyage of discovery and Darwin went 1831-1836
-Would collect things like rock, animals and made maps
_Found and collected tens of thousands of specimens that no one had ever seen (archetypes)
-Went to the Galapagos Islands off of ecuador |
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| Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell |
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-started to get the idea that things changed over time
-Thought that there had been enough time for things to have changed that much
-Lyell had proposed in the book that the earth could be millions of years old
-this gave darwin the things needed to finish his theory |
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-1850's
-Had been all over southeast asia
-Started to come up with his own idea that things changed over time (same time and idea as darwin)
-Met with darwin and shared ideas
-Published ideas in 1858, but it did not get a lot of attention
-In 1859, darwin published and it was accepted |
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-1850's
-Had been all over southeast asia
-Started to come up with his own idea that things changed over time (same time and idea as darwin)
-Met with darwin and shared ideas
-Published ideas in 1858, but it did not get a lot of attention
-In 1859, darwin published and it was accepted |
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-Mechanism for evolution; makes evolution work
-Differential reproduction
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| Tenets proposed by darwin and wallace |
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-More offspring tend to be produced than can ever possibly survive
-Individuals/ offspring in a population show variation (bell curve)
-Some traits are more adaptive than others (give an advantage to the offspring) |
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| Will give a slightly better chance of survival |
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| Differential reproduction |
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-Result of natural selection
-Individual that passes most genes to the next generation wins
-Leaving more traits allows more offspring to have advantage to stay alive |
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-the most fit organism leaves the most offspring
-Other people (not darwin) coined this phrase
-British took this phrase to the extreme |
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-Said there were too many people which was bad
-Charles Dickens got involved and wrote the Christmas Carol in reaction to the evolution debate |
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-Group of individuals of the same species at the same time in the same place
-Populations evolve not individuals: Natural selection acts on them to cause evolution |
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-Change in genetic makeup of small populations done by chance
-Bottleneck and Founder effect |
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