[BIO SCI 94] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (92 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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Theories have a pattern and process component: world. : a statement that summarizes a series of observations about the natural. : a mechanism that produces that pattern or set of observations. A scientific revolution overturns an existing idea about how nature works and replaces it with another radically different idea. Plato claimed god created a perfect type of each organism. The key to understanding life was to ignore these shadows or deviations of the perfect type. This is typological thinking- basing on the idea that species are unchanging types and that variations are unimportant or misleading. Aristotle proposed that species were organized into a sequence based on increased size and complexity, with humans at the top. Also claimed that characteristics of species were fixed and did not change over time. In the 1700s, aristotle"s ideas were still popular in scientific and religious circles: species are fixed types, some species are higher (more complex or better ) than others.
