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Darwin - Week 1

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Evolution was invented by Darwin - True or False?
False
An astronomer, geometer, and meteorologist interested in biology who believed "water is the first principle."
Thales of Milet
A geographer and astronomer who imagined the first generation of organisms as coming into being through metamorphosis. Believed that the first animals generated from moisture and man was generated from other living things.
Anaximander
A philosopher who understood organisms' structure and form through their function - "organisms were designed by a creator to achieve ultimate goodness and harmony."
Plato
A philosopher who believed that adult animal forms represented the final goal (telos) and that change during embryological development represented a striving toward that telos. Developed a scale of nature.
Aristotle
This 19th century scientist thought that life evolved from primordial soup.
Erasmus Darwin
This man developed the first full-blown evolutionary ideas in 1809 and thought speciation occurred and that traits could be acquired.
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
This scientist's biggest ideas were descent with modification and natural selection. He developed the radiation of species hypothesis as well and circumnavigated the globe on the "Beatle."
Charles Darwin
This scientist was a contemporary of Darwin and developed the idea of natural selection independently. Ended up co-presenting the idea with Darwin at a meeting of the Linnean society.
Russell Wallace
This Augustinian monk was Darwin's contemporary. His work in genetics helped scientists to understand what Darwin had not - how inheritance works.
Gregor Mendel
English biologist, famous for his defense of Darwinism in his public debate with Archbishop Samuel Wilberforce. Coined the term "agnosticism".
Thomas Huxley
This person used X-ray diffraction to determine the shape of the DNA molecule.
Rosalin Franklin
The town where Darwin was born...
Shrewsbury
Darwin's birthday
February 12, 1809
Darwin's favorite sports as a boy...
angling and shooting
The book which "first gave [Darwin] a wish to travel in remote countries."
'Wonders of the World'
The ship upon which Darwin circumnavigated the world.
the Beagle
Darwin calls this subject the "best part of his education at school because it showed him the practical meaning of experimental science."
Chemistry
Darwin's "two greatest evils" of his life were...
not having practiced dissection and his incapacity to draw
One of Darwin's school friends: a Wernerian geologist who wrote about his travels to Assyria
Ainsworth
One of Darwin's school friends: a highly-religious zoologist.
Dr. Coldstream
One of Darwin's school friends: Darwin says he would have made a good botanist had he not died early.
Hardie
One of Darwin's school friends: this man was Darwin's senior and published "some first rate" zoology papers and discussed Lamarck with Darwin.
Dr. Grant
Darwin intended in pursuing a career in the...
clergy
This friend of Darwin's gave him a "taste for pictures and good engravings."
Whitley
This friend of Darwin's gave him his love of music.
John Maurice Herbert
Darwin spent much of his time at Cambridge collecting _____.
beetles
Darwin calls this friendship the one which influenced his whole career more than any other. This man was knowledgeable about botany, etomology, chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.
Professor Henslow
The captain of the Beagle - judged people by their noses and had a tremendous temper.
Fitz-Roy
The only book Darwin brought with him on the Beagle's voyage.
Paradise Lost
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