Believed species were fixed creations arranged according to their complexity
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What did Linnaeus do?
He grouped similar organisms and assigned them latin names (Binomial nomenclature
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What did James Hutton believe in?
Gradualism-slow moving forces, still in operation today working over long periods of time
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What did Charles Lyell believe?
Uniformitarianism- The present is key to the past
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What did Georges Cuvier propose?
Catastrophism- studies fossils in sedimentary rocks, found some species completely disappeared in more recent layers- proposing that species disappear due to a catastrophic event
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What did Jeane-Baptist Lamarck believe?
Change occurs overtime, these are adaptations to local environments. Organisms matched their environment- explained by gradual change over multiple generations
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What did Malthus believe?
Population growth will outstrip avaliable resources
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What is a population in ecological terms?
A group of individuals of the same species in the same place
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What is a population in evolutionary terms?
A group of interbreeding individuals of the same species
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What Evidence supports the theory of Evolution?
Biogeography, The fossil record, Direct observation and Homology
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How does Biogeography support the theory of evolution?
Distribution of species, continental drift explaining current patterns. Some species are endemic
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What did Linnaeus do?
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He grouped similar organisms and assigned them latin names (Binomial nomenclature
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