Evolution

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What term describes the Plato belief that species are fixed within a grand scale of nature?
Essentialism
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Who developed the binomial naming/classification system of species?
Linnaeous
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What is Catastrophism?
The pre-evolutionary theory that only big events changed the look of fossils in rocks and earths structure
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Who introduced the idea of evolution through the inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Jean Lamarck
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What species concept states that species are those that breed and produce offspring?
Biological
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What species concept is associated with sharing features/looking similar?
Morphological
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What is Macroevolution?
patterns in the change of species composition over time
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What is the correct opposition to the idea of Gradualism?
Most fossil records don't show intermediate forms of evolving fossils
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Which is NOT evidence for the meteorite that hit 65mya?
Thick layer of Mercury found around the impact site
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Which human evolution theory describes that 1mya hominids radiated out to other regions from Africa and genetic exchange occured?
Multiregional Theory
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