BIOL359 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eutheria, Zoogeography, Devo
4 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Empedocles: body parts joined at random and only ideal combinations fit mythological creatures. Plato: all things are imperfect representations the perfect real world. Aristotle: static world it is as it should be gods creation follows a plan. Lamarck: species change into new species inheritance of acquired characteristics. Erasmus darwin: species modified descendants of earlier forms. Catastrophism: earth"s features modeled by great catastrophes no longer operate today consequence of trying to relate age of earth with bible. Uniformitarianism: geo processes today are the same as those in the past. Lyell: evidence for uniformitarianism in book principles of geology ended catastrophism age of earth (4. 5 bya) Darwin: ns, finches in galapagos islands however mechanism of inheritance was unknown. Wallace: simultaneously arrived at similar idea to darwins. Evolutionary theory: origin of species had six editions all species have descended without interruption from one or a few original forms of life, ns. Neo-darwinian / modern synthesis: ns acts on genetic variation haldane, fisher, wright.
