3230:150- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
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Chapter 2 evolution: constructing a fundamental scienti c theory. The theory of evolution: the context for darwin. Synthesized important realizations from 5 scienti c disciplines of his time. Biology, incl. embryology evolution- changes in the forms of organic life that have occurred throughout time, since life rst arose on earth. Other scientists before him discussed evolution and some thought that species could change over time. What happened before darwin? monogenesis great chain of being concept- the idea that you can rank species from simple to more complex ex: plants , invertebrates, cold-blooded vertebrates, birds, furry mammals, humans mono= one genesis= creation. Early naturalists believed all species were created at the same time. Fossils were occasionally found, were thought to be imperfect creations cast down from heaven by god, he was angry and turned them into stone and threw them down to the earth. 16th and 17th centuries- the examination of nature in all its aspects.
