GEOL 1066 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Vertebrate, Mollusca, Stapes
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Class: fossilization of the actual animal, preserves soft parts. Original apatite is the mineral in bone. Erasmus darwin: grandfather of charles, believed that new characteristics could arise to better adapt animals to their habitats, but had no good Lamarck (1744 1829: worked on paris basin invertebrates. Inheritance of acquired characteristics was a widespread idea in. Lamarck"s time: his idea was that lower forms rise in complexity through an unconscious inner drive, new structures arise in response to need. Lysenka, a russian geneticist, followed lamarck and set back. Understood a difference between : louis agassiz. Believed in multiple creations, immutable species: edward drinker cope, technically not a darwinian, something of a neolamarckian, cope"s law. Trends toward increase in body size throughout time: henry fairfield osborn, orthogenesis. Evolution along internally driven directions, not adaptively controlled, neither lamarckian or darwinian: trained 3 darwinists: George gaylord simpson: the synthetic theory, origin of life, 4 components of life.
