Darwin - ANSWERShis insights formed the foundations of evolutionary history contributions
Darwin - ANSWERShe went to medical school in Edinburgh and was interested in nature
Darwin - ANSWERStrained to become a clergyman at Cambridge
Voyage of the Beagle - ANSWERSmission to expand Navy's kn...
Nicolas Steno - ANSWERSfounder of geology/paleontology, rock formation
Nicolas Steno - ANSWERSquestioned the idea that fossils grew in the ground (tongue
stones = shark teeth)
,Nicolas Steno - ANSWERSrecognized record of historical change
Strata - ANSWERSsedimentary rock layers
Geologists - ANSWERS______ recognized that change was gradual
James Hutton - ANSWERSsuggested that processes produce small changes over time
= earth must be old
William Smith - ANSWERSsuggested that rock layers different ages with different
fossils
Charles Lyell - ANSWERSwrote book Darwin read on Beagle
Paleontology - ANSWERS____ provided evidence that life changed
Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSfounding father of Paleontology
Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSsuggested that fossils resemble modern species, but are
not the same
Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSsuggested species extinction
catastrophism - ANSWERScatastrophe kills old - new pops up
Georges Cuvier - ANSWERSproposed idea of Catastrophism but was missing the link
on the process
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSgiraffe dude
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that life was driven simple to complex
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that complex species were descended
from microbes
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that microbes continually generated
spontaneously
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERSsuggested that adaptation occurs through
inheritance of acquired changes
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - ANSWERShis idea was not supported: people were blinded in
an accident would have blind children
modern genetics - ANSWERSphenotypic changes acquired during the lifetime do not
result in genetic changes
, Descent with modification (evolution) - ANSWERSonce Darwin accepted that Earth
must be very old after gathering fossils on his voyage he came up with the idea of:
descent with modification (evolution) - ANSWERSidea that allowed Darwins whole
theory to begin to take shape
descent with modification (evolution) - ANSWERSidea that species are not fixed, but
change over time
speciation - ANSWERSformation of a new species
speciation - ANSWERSoccurs because the isolated population evolved independent of
the mainland population
Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSDarwin was prompted to go public with his ideas
because of whom
Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSa letter from whom proposed similar evolutionary
ideas to Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSwho suggested these ideas similar to Darwin
-common ancestry
-natural selection
20 years - ANSWERShow long did Darwin wait after the HMS Beagle to publish his
ideas
Alfred Russel Wallace - ANSWERSconceived the idea of "survival of the fittest"
Darwin and Wallace - ANSWERSwho presented a joint paper to the Linnaean Society
Darwin and Wallace - ANSWERSwho announced to the world that species evolve
through natural selection with common descent
Phylogenetics - ANSWERSallows for the reconstruction of evolutionary history by
depicting possible historical relationships between species
phylogenetics - ANSWERSoften represented in branching relationships within a tree
synapomorphies - ANSWERStraits that have been derived from a recent common
ancestor
synapomorphies - ANSWERSused to reconstruct phylogenetic trees
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