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Who nominated Darwin for his voyage?
Henslow
TERM 2
Who was the captain of the
boat?
DEFINITION 2
Fitzroy
TERM 3
What was the name of the boat that Darwin
took his voyage on?
DEFINITION 3
The Beatle
TERM 4
What book did Darwin read while on the
Beatle?
DEFINITION 4
Lyell's Principles of Geology
TERM 5
What did Darwin attribute the geology he saw
on the trip to?
DEFINITION 5
Gradualistic forces
Who were some of the people to examine
Darwin's collections?
Owen, Henslow, and Gould
TERM 7
What supported the idea of transmutation?
DEFINITION 7
Endemism and affinity to SA species
TERM 8
Who was Malthus?
DEFINITION 8
Wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population"Insufficient
resources to support all living things cause waste, sickness,
death, misery, and viceInfluential to Darwin and Wallace
TERM 9
What factors led Darwin to think of natural
selection?
DEFINITION 9
Malthus' ideas combined with variation among individuals
TERM 10
Who were some of the people that Darwin
wrote to about his ideas?
DEFINITION 10
Hooker, Lyell, Gray
Convergent evolution
Independent evolution of similar traits in each taxon
TERM 17
Exaptation
DEFINITION 17
Original function is lost but it is still beneficialEx. Ostriches
can't fly
TERM 18
Coevolution
DEFINITION 18
Nothing to do with the environment
TERM 19
Vestigial structures
DEFINITION 19
Useless version of a body part that has important function in
a related speciesCommon. All members should have.
TERM 20
Atavisms
DEFINITION 20
Randomly expressed remnant of an ancestral feature
Phylogeny
Pattern of relatedness among evolutionary units
TERM 22
Cladogram
DEFINITION 22
Branch lengths don't have meaning, only topology
TERM 23
Chronogram
DEFINITION 23
Branches hint to time units
TERM 24
Phylogram
DEFINITION 24
Branches mean units of divergence and distance
TERM 25
Supernatural to natural
DEFINITION 25
Anaximander
Believed in transmutation of animals, not
humans
Buffon
TERM 32
Believed that animals changed, but stuck to
certain types that fit their mold
DEFINITION 32
Buffon
TERM 33
Frenchman that pissed off Thomas
Jefferson
DEFINITION 33
Buffon
TERM 34
First biogeographic observation of species
DEFINITION 34
Cuvier
TERM 35
4 anatomy types
DEFINITION 35
Cuvier
Proved extinction from fossils
Cuvier
TERM 37
1st kind of evolution
DEFINITION 37
Lamarkian evolution
TERM 38
Who had a ridiculous ego?
DEFINITION 38
Cuvier
TERM 39
Who proposed spontaneous
generation?
DEFINITION 39
Lamark
TERM 40
Independent progression
DEFINITION 40
Lamark
Uniformitarianism
Lyell
TERM 47
Lyells view on evolution
DEFINITION 47
Did not believe
