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The fossil considered by evolutionist to be characteristic of a certain time. Rocklayers.
Index fossil
Science that attempts to improve the human species by controlling factors in selectivity breeding humans to produce a master race
Eugenics
Unusual fossil burn off to presented as an evolutionarily link between dinosaurs in modern birds
Archaeopteryx
18th century British, who argued that the intricate of living things exhibit evidence by their creator
William Paley
Systematic thought process used by scientist to collect data data to confirm or discard the hypothesis
Scientific method
The French scientist, who founded science of comparative anatomy, and show that the bodies of men in animal have certain Basic similarities in their overall design
Georges Cuvier
The idea that all living things are composed of living units, called cells and upsell products And they’re all cells can only come from pre-existing cells
Cell theory
Remains or impression of a plant animal or human preserved in sedimentary rock
Fossils
Reasoning from specific events in nature to their general causes
Inductive reasoning
Changes within a particular kind of organism because of variations in the gene pool within a population also called micro evolution
Speciation
Idea that Living things can arise from nonliving things
Spontaneous generation
Idea that science can find answers for all the problems in life
Scientism
Technique that assigns hypothetical edges to rocks and fossils based on the decay rates of radio active elements
Radiometric dating
Idea that evolution occurs in spurts, by long periods with noticeable changes
Punctuated equilibrium hypothesis
The idea that the fittest and strongest of each species were more likely to survive and reproduce than weaker, poorly adapted animals
Natural selection
Early human fossil that was discovered near Piltdown England And prove to be a hoax
Piltdown man
Group of human ancestors that include small members that are extinct apes, and large members that are fully human
Homo habillis
Group of fully human parcels first discovered in a cave in southwest France that were originally considered subhuman by evolutionist
Cro magnum, man
Medium sized eight fossil once considered human like by evolutionist, but now known to be similar to modern organisms
Ranapmapithacus
Human ancestor fossil that was discovered in Nebraska, and later, proved to be an ex extinct pig
Nebraska man
Fossil species that is considered a human ancestor by evolutionist, but most likely represents an extended group of true humans
Homo erectus
Group of fully human fossils first discovered in Germany’s Neander valley that were once considered by Evolutionist to be subhuman apelike brutes
Neanderthal man
Roman general who wrote natural history
Pliney, the elder
16th century physician, who wrote Fábrica, and is considered the father of anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
