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Evolution Exam 1
people, etc.
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
10/01/2017

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On the Origin of Species
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published 1859
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voyage of HMS beagle
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1831-1835
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Darwin grew up in
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England
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Humans time on earth has been
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.01 of a second of the last hour
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Malthus
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favorable variations persevered
population growth vs. food supply
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Lamarck
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theory of acquired characteristics
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Buffon
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bio-geography for evidence of evolution
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Wallace
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published with Darwin
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Lyell
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uniformitarianism
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Hutton
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process that formed the earth still changes it during present day

 

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Cuvier
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more than one lineage, no linear system
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God's registrar
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Carolus Linneaus
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golden thread of biology
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Ernst Mayr
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Darwin's bulldog
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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mathematical theory of population genetics
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Systematics and the Origin of Species
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Ernst Mayr
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Evolution: the modern synthesis
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Julian Huxley
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Systema Naturae
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Carolus Linnaeus, about binomial nomenclature (species genus)
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skull
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wolf
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what fossils man dug
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whale
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whales do not swim like otters
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whales do not swim like otters
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