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Who is called the Father of Comparative Anatomy?
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Georges Cuvier
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What was Georges Cuvier beliefs?
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1.)that earth suffered several mass extinctions and re-creations
2.) From a small part of an organism, the whole can be deduced.
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What was Richard Owen Famous for?
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1.) Incredibly detailed anatomical work.
2.) Intellectual successor to Cuvier.
3.) Coining the words homology and dinosaur
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What is a common plan or blueprint which all vertebrates were built along?
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Archetypes
This could be noted in the skull which he believed to be formed from modified vertebrae
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Who belived that the skull was formed from modified vertebrae?
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Richard Owen
(an hypothesis that was first formulated by the German poet Goethe).
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Who for the first time demonstrated that extinction was reality and that not all life ever alive is still alive today?
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Georges Cuvier
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The First modern teacher of comparative anatomy?
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Louis Agassiz
his ability to draw with both hands at once while still continuing to talk.
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Founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard
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Louis Agassiz
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The first scientific evolutionary hypothesis - Inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck beliefs?
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Animals could alter their appearance during life and pass these traits to their offspring.
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What was Alfred Russel Wallace Famous? (by himself)
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Wallace's line - a line of demarcation that splits the Australian and Southeast Asian faunas and floras.
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Famous for
Natural selection & published a short, paper describing this?
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Charles Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace
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What deaded with Cuvier and Lamarck?
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Creationism
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Evolution (transmutation) brought to public consciousness by?
How did he do this?
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Erasmus Darwin
The Temple of Nature - poem about transmutation and the Linnean classification scheme
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Why is it Darwinism and not Wallaceism?
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Darwin had been published before.
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