Billology Quiz 1
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- Copernicus
- Heliocentric
- Galileo
- Supports Copernicus (heliocentric)
- Aristotelian Logic
- Deductive Reasoning
- Deductive Reasoning
- Established truths, from which they found less obvious truths
- Deductive Syllogism
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"If" statement
"Then" statement
"Therefore" statement - Creationism
- Life's diversity came from God - he made them that way
- Evolution
- Spontaneous creation, then descent with modification
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
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“Nothing in biology makes any sense except in the light of evolutionâ€
Changes in population gene (allelic) frequencies over time – evolution - Plato
- "idealism" or "essentialism"
- Aristotle
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An early naturalist
Scala Naturae - discrete levels (species)
Believed life was immutable - Roger Bacon
- “Cease to be ruled by dogma and authority – look at the worldâ€
- Sir Thomas More
- Inductive Logic
- Inductive Logic
- General Knowledge -> Specific Observation gets reversed: Specific Observation -> General Knowledge
- Natural Theology
- Promoted the clarification of God’s plan for life by studying nature
- Carolus Linnaeus
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Father of modern taxonomy
1753 - Species Plantarae
1758 - Systema Naturae
Binomial Nomenclature - Georges Cuvier
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Father of Paleontology
Supported immutability of species
Catastrophism - James Hutton
- Principle of Gradualism
- Charles Lyell
- Uniformitarianism - an extreme form of gradualism
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck
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Use and disuse
Acquired Characteristics