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SIGEPMDBETAHONR289c2ndMidTerm
Lectures 5&6, all evolutionary thinkers, and first 5 readings
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Undergraduate 1
11/07/2011

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Carl Linnaeus
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Swedish,1707
Classification system: Binomial nomenclature, genus species, calss and order!
Classification on more detailed anatomical parts than previous systems
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Erasmus Darwin
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1731-1802
Influenced Charles
3 needs of animals : "lust, security, and hunger"
"single living filament"
earth is old
strongest survive and thus propagate a stronger species
think zoonomia
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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1823-1913
Guy we've been reading about, cmon!
Got Darwin to publish his book, had very similar natural selection idea, only difference was he thought males were the reproductive choosers.
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William C Wells
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1759-1817
Charles credits with first natural selection due to his writings about the black race evolving to combat the heat/ diseases. Says nature works like domestication just much slower (selecting for features)
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Ernst Haeckel
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1834-1919
Microscope, Nazi guy who drew the pretty pictures. Law of recapitulation: ontology recapitulates phylogeny (basically embryonic development mirrors evolutionary stages, disproven). Drawings used a lot, polygenist race theory.
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Buffon
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1707-1788
Defined species (reproductive compatibility that creates children that create children all looking the same)
Contributed evidence to evolution: fossils, homologous structures, biogeography (sorta)
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James Hutton
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1726-1797
Rock cycle, earth as a "self-renewing recycling machine"
brought up question of how old earth is
Started geology, geological forces are same today as past and operate at same rate (allows for fossil dating based on rock layer?)
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George Cuvier
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1769-1832
Catastrophism (great events cause mass extinctions, species radiate afterwards)
Very good at creating skeletons, said function determines form, form does not determine function
Said organisms are too complex to change certain aspects
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William Herbert
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1778-1847
Hybridization of plants, hybrids can be better than parents (and not sterile), influenced Darwin, plant classification.
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Thomas Malthus
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1766-1834
Population guy, food supply increases arithmetically while population increases geometrically. Overpopulation=death
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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1744-1829
Classified worms and insects, coined the word invertebrate (and classified many), theory of use it or lose it evolution
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Robert Chambers
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1802-1871
Nebular hypothesis of formation of solar system, suggested everything came from earlier forms solar system, Earth, rocks, plants and corals, fish, land plants, reptiles and birds, mammals, and ultimately man. (before Darwin)
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Edward Blyth
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1810-1873
Natural selction before Darwin in a Creationist view. No common ancestor and natural selection merely acted as a way to protect God's creatures. Original species did better than the more exotic types
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Samuel Halderman
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1812-1880 (AMERICA)
Conchology and Malacology (study of shells and mollusks, his work was used by Darwin) Very detailed.
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Gregor Mendel
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1822-1884
Pea plants yo
Recessive and dominant traits as well as multiple genes per trait (though didn't know what a gene was)
Law of Segregation, one allele from each parent
Law of Independent Assortment: alleles for each trait are passed independently (mom's eyes doesn't mean mom's nose)
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Good Gene hypothesis
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Males show off how great they are (think birds exposing feathers to show no parasites
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Handicap Principle
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Males say "look I can survive despite this hindrance" Think of deer growing antlers, using resources to grow something only to weigh them down.
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Fisher's runaway trait model
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Create conspicuous characters that are attractive, but natural selection opposes them and they get eaten (think guppies)
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Asexual Reproduction
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One organism mates with itself (usually plants)
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Parthenogenisis
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children are exactly alike their mothers
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Change/switch sex
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often dependent on some resource (male when not very many resources, female when surplus)
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Polygamy
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One male, many females
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Polyandry
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One female, many males (rare, maybe use extra males for protection)
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Monogamy
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Partners for life
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No Partner
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Usually hermaphroditic
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Batesian Mimicry
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Species mimics the model with no benefit to the mimic. FREQUENCY DEPENDENT
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Muellerian Mimicry
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both species mimic each other, benefit both.
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