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| Who took charge of Darwin's affairs upon his return from his voyage? |
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| What was Darwin's biggest contribution to geology following his voyage? |
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| He described his experience with earthquakes that elevated sead bed and connected them to the marin fossils he found on top of mountains. |
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| Why did Darwin need Fitzroy's bird collection and ntoes on them and the time spent at various Galapagos islands? |
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| He needed the birds labeled by island which he had not done. He wanted to see if new species adapted from new varieties to new species by blowing there from SA. |
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| Who described some of Darwin's fossils? What was his and Darwin's relationship? |
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Owen
He was willing to help Darwin in the beginning but eventually became an enemy of Darwin's. |
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| How did Fitzroy and some members view D's ideas on variation? |
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| They thought that these ideas reduced man's higher status in regards to divine creation. It made man seem unspecial in the eyes of God. |
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| Who contributed to D's finch work? What did he contribute? |
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John Gould.
He drew them and described their species, that they were all the same species essentially with really different beaks specialized to their island. |
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| How did D view "The Great Chain of Being"? |
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| He saw that everything was a part of a great chain of life. It was not a ladder structure. No animal was higher than another. He used a tree to describe it and ultimately showed that we all came from a common ancestor. |
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| How did Darwin use selective breeding to support his mechanism of evolution. |
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| He thought that like nature, we can chose traits to breed on while others are left unbreeded. Those that are not selected for reproduction carry extinct traits. While those prefered for selection become more common. |
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| How did Laissez-faire influence Darwin? Who's book contained this idea at the time in London? |
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Malthus
Darwin saw that nature experiences similar checks and species with advantages are naturally selected. This idea left individuals to scuffle or their own desires. It was kind of a surival of the fittest idea. |
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| How did Owen and Darwin differ in their interpretation of vert anatomy? |
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Owen thought that chimps are distinctively anamalistic and apart and NOT derived from a common ancestor with humans. Chimp hands and feet are the same, both for the dirt. Human hands and feet are different and hands are not needed to walk. He thought these differences were made bu God.
Darwin saw differences that were derived from a common ancestor. He saw developmental similarities and other commonalities that encouraged this idea. |
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| How did Emma differ from D in the idea of evolution. |
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Emma believed in divind creation. She was into Christian Salvationsim.
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| What impact did the death of hid daughter have on D's life view? |
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| nnies death destroyed Darwins remaining faith in God. He could no believe in a God that would take the life of his daughter. |
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| What was Thomas Huxley's role following the release of D's book? |
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| He defended Darwin's book against Owen and other Creationists of the time. He also contributed his studies of the human and primate brain. |
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