BIOL 1001 : Final Exam Review
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Topic list for the final exam that will be ~ 50 questions. Buffon: comte de buffon (1707 1788) Original creation provided a small number of species and many modern species: george cuvier (1769 1832) Catastrophism multiple catastrophes in a short period produced many layers of rock and destroyed many species: charles lyell (1830) Suggested that the forces that formed layers of rock and sediment are due to the same natural forces occurring today and they happened repeatedly over long periods of time. Uniformitarianism earth"s present landscape was produced by the past action of the same gradual geological processes that we observe today: jean baptiste lamarck. Observation: older fossils are more simple than younger ones. Hypothesis: individuals acquire characteristics through use of disuse of body parts. Acquired characteristics are not inherited (parents worked out doesn"t mean you were born strong: charles darwin. Darwin"s book on the origin of species by means of natural.
