people Flashcards

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plato

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true world vs illusionary world-true world vs world perceived by the senses

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aristotle

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“scale of nature”-first classification system

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aristotle’s classification system

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2 kingdoms
plants and animals
-had a continuum from simple to complex

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4
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cuvier

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atastrophism-the history of life was made by ataclysmic events like floods and droughts

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5
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linnaeus

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Natural Theology-disovery of a Creators plan through classification of species

Binomial nomenclature

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lamarck

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acquired characteristics-early expansion of mechanism of evolution

(if humans flap their arms long enough, theyd grow wings, and their children would have wings

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7
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hutton

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gradualism-evolution is a slow and steady process

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lyell

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uniformitariasm- the processes that currently shape the earth have and always will shape the earth (like desertification, erosion….)

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9
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malthus

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population trends- if we keep using our finite resources and the pop keeps growing, we’d use up all of our resources

growing pop leads to competition

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10
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wallace

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the reason darwin published his book

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