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Evolution

✓ ~~~ The gradual change in a species over time



Facts

✓ ~~~ Observations accepted as truth, and better if confirmed repeatedly



Hypotheses

✓ ~~~ Testable statement that can be supported or rejected (falsified)



Falsified

✓ ~~~ Able to be probed false



Theories

✓ ~~~ Testable via observation and experimentation, falsifiable, subject to revision and
adjustments, and cannot be proven (only supported or falsified)



Laws

✓ ~~~ Accepted generalizations that describe natural phenomena



1. Facts

2. Hypotheses

3. Theories

4. Laws

, ✓ ~~~ What are the four components of science?



Biology

✓ ~~~ The study of life



Biological evolution

✓ ~~~ Change in populations overtime



Evolutionary biology

✓ ~~~ Branch of biology that assesses how populations change over time



Microevolution

✓ ~~~ Change in allele frequencies within populations



Macroevolution

✓ ~~~ Larger scale change, providing evidence of how we assess relationships between
taxa (species through domains)



Microevolution vs. Macroevolution

✓ ~~~ Change in the gene pool of a population over several generations / large scale
changes in a population that leads to the evolution of a new species



Ancient Greeks

✓ ~~~ ______ ______ were among the first to study the natural world. They were the first
scientists



Anaximander (610-546 BC)

, ✓ ~~~ Early Greek naturalist who advocated...
- Early animals rose from the ocean

- Humans came from the mouths of giant fish

- Complexity rose from simple life




Aristole (384-322 BC)

✓ ~~~ Advocated...
- The importance of observation

- Wrote "History of Animals" - describing and classifying animals

- Wrote "Scala Naturae" - organizing living things along scales of "perfection"




Aristotle

✓ ~~~ Who was the first to classify animals?



During the renaissance period (1300-1700)

✓ ~~~ When did the rise of natural theology occur?



Archbishop James Usher

✓ ~~~ Calculated earths age based on biblical genealogies, determining in 1650 that earth
was 5,654 years old



Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

✓ ~~~ - Suggested that the earth was much older than previously believed
- In 1779, made a new estimate of earth age of 75,000 years old

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