HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cambrian Explosion, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Outcrossing
5 Dec 2020
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Many accepted the idea of evolution but not the mechanism darwin proposed. Thomas huxley: was one of darwin"s strongest supporters, but still had some issues with many details of the theory, agnostic: when limits of reason are reached, an open mind about the unanswered question is the best approach. Dna the human version of a gene will be more like the chimpanzee version than that of a mouse of a fish. Intelligent design = is a religious argument for the existence of god, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life"s origins: watchmaker analogy, acceptance microevolution, irreducible complexity, specified complexity. 1: beliefs that it is right for the strong to crowd out the weak, and that the only hope for human improvement lay in selective breeding -> survival of the fittest. William greg: largely agreed with galton and insisted that, unlike the lower order, it is the middle classes who delay marriage until they can support family.
