Origins Theme 2
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- These researchers proposed a mechanism for gradual change in species in the 1850s.
- Darwin and Wallace
- This mechanism for evolution says that life changes because creatures over-produce: they vary; some variations provide an advantage; variations are inheriable, so advantageous ones are passed on more often.
- Natural Selection
- This is the name of the ship aboard which Darwin served as naturalist.
- H.M.S Beagle
- This term refers to a fator that can lead to "speciation," and usually results from geographical or physical developments that cause barriers or distance between members of a species.
- Reproductie Isolation
- This trial tested a Tennesse Law banning the theory of evolution from high school classrooms. Where was it?
- Scopes Trial. Dover, PA
- This writer argued in THE GENESIS FLOOD that the earth and life on it were created in six 24-hour days.
- Henry Morris
- Tis English clergyman proposed ending help to poor children to discouragethe population disaster he predicted if they continued to reprodce.
- Thomas Malthus
- These industrialists promosted Social Darwinism in the United States.
- Rockefeller, Kallog, Carnegie
- This Egnlish sociologist opposed social welfare measures because he thought the lower classes were inferior and should not be allowed to hamper the chances of the upper, "fitter" classes.
- Herbert Spenser.
- This scientist attempted to put the history of the universe in familar terms.
- Carl Sagan
- This poet, in the face of a friend's death, wonders whether humans will become extinct as the geological record shows other animals have.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- This Victorian writer argued that the earth only appears old and that "fossils" were placed on earth to test our faith.
- Gosse
- This Victorian clergyman, in THE PENTATUCH AND THE BOOK OF JOSHUA CRITICALLY EXAMINED, concluded that the first five books of the Bible could not be seen as historically accurate.
- Bishop Colenso
- This author warned that pesticides could change habitts faster than animals can adapt.
- Rachel Carson
- This is the name of the twin babies the monkeys sent to the farmer in the Yoruba myth about twins.
- Abiku
- This hypothesis suggests that the earth as an interdependent whole is alive, self-maintaining, and self-regulating, like a "super" organism.
- Gaia
- This pesticide was intended to control agriculturaly harmful insects, but it actually created armies of resistant bugs.
- D.D.T
- This scientist believe that giraffes had long necks because they had to stretch to reach the trees. What is this theory called?
- Lamark. Aquired Characteristics