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concepts of biology: chapter 11, evolution and it's processes

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all living species evolved at some point
from a different species
evolution is
ongoing
evolution is the process
through which the characteristics of specifies change and through which new species arise
the unifying theory of biology
theory of evolution
the theory of evolution by natural selection
describes a mechanism for species change over time
the view that species were static and unchanging was grounded in the
writings of plato
who reintroduced ideas about the evolution of animals in the 18th century?
George's-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and even Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin
James Hutton proposed that
geological changes occurred gradually by the accumulation of small changes from processes (over long periods of time)
james hutton's view was later popularized by
the geologist Charles Lyell in the 19th century.
in the early 19th century, Jean-Baptist's Lamarck published a book
that detailed a mechanism for evolutionary change that is now referred to as inheritance of acquired characteristics
in lamarck's theory, modifications in an individual caused by its environment, or the use of dishes of a. structure during its lifetime,
could be inherited by its offspring and thus, bring about change in a species (it was discredited)
what is lamarck known as?
""founder of the doctrine of evolution"
the actual mechanism for evolution was independently conceived of and described by
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace (in the mid 19th century)
from 1831 to 1836, darwin traveled around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle visiting
South America, Australia and the southern tip of Africa
Wallace travels to Brazil to
collect insects in the Amazon rainforest from 1848 to 1852 and to the Malay Archipelago from 1854 to 1862
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