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| developed the idea of catastrophism |
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| used broth and sealed jars to disprove spontaneous generation |
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| wrote "On Origin of Species" |
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| used meat in open jars or in het covered jars to disprove spontaneous generation |
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| believed organisms could acquire characteristics that were passed on to offspring. |
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| contempary of Darwin who came to the same conclusions Darwin did regarding natural selection being the way organisms evolved. |
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| believed that uniformitarianism as a geologic process had changed the Earth's surface. |
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| used embryo drawings to prove Darwin's idea of descent with modification. |
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| disproved spontaneous generation using broth and unsealed flasks with curved necks |
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| suggested that populations are limited by food supply, war, disease. |
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| study of locations of organisms around the world |
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| structures that serve no function but seem like structures in related organisms |
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| relationship between organisms based on ancestry |
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| remains of an organism that died long ago |
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| structures found in different species inherited from a common ancestor of the species |
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| lower strata of undisturbed rock will be the oldest |
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| the measure of one's genetic contribution to the next generation |
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| having a trait that makes one successful in its environmnet |
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