This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Scientists who influenced Darwin
Aristotle |
scala naturae (god created every creature as is and they're all perfect) |
Linnaeus |
father of taxonomy |
Hutton |
Gradualism (changes in Earth’s surface can result from slow continuous actions) |
Lamarck |
species evolve through use and disuse of body parts and the inheritance of acquired characteristics |
Malthus |
overpopulation |
Cuvier |
Catastrophism (each layer of strata in the earth represents a 'catastrophe'), fossils |
Lyell |
Uniformitarianism (processes which happened in the past still happen today) |
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Earth's age
old notion |
earth is a few thousand years old |
new notion |
earth is almost 5 billion years old |
Note from author
I've changed my mind. This isn't going to help me study for a bio test because of the limited resources and time i have. If a viewer wishes to finish it, please do. |
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Proof 1 - Fossils
Paleontology |
study of fossils |
strata |
layers of earth |
Proof 2 - Comparative anatomy
homologous |
same structure, different use (bat wing/human arm) |
vestigial |
same function, diff structure (bat wing, butterfly wing) |
Proof 3 - Comparative embryology
homologous parts |
tail in all vertebrae embryos |
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