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Evolution-People
Important people who contributed to the ideas of evolution
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
02/06/2011

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Plato
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Principle of Plenitude
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Aristotle
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Scala Natura
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Linnaeus
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created binomial system based on sexual structures of plants
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Hutton
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Uniformitarianism (ancient geological changes brought about by same processes as ones going on now)
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Lyell
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Darwin's friend; helped win acceptance of Hutton's Uniformitarianism and Darwin's Evolution
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Lamarck
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1st to propose evolution
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Plato
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Essentialism
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Aristotle
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disciple of Plato
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Lamarck
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use and disuse/inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Darwin
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theory of natural selection
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Wallace
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naturalist who worked in Indonesia; arrived at the conclusion that nature selects the fittest
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Darwin
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Descent with modification
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Malthus
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populations grow geometrically and resources grow arithmetically
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Haeckel
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ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
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von baer
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corrected Haeckel-embryos go through stages of looking like embryos of their ancestors
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