Authors
Fabrica
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
Proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is the belief that only the natural world exists?
What is materialism?
The belief that evolution occurs slowly.
What is gradualism?
Science put to practical use.
What is technology?
Roman stateman who wrote about evidence of design in the universe.
Who is Cicero?
Helped found the Philosophical College and a leading member of the Royal Society
Who is John Wilkins?
What is the foundation of modern science?
What is biblical principles?
What is the idea that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time?
What is punctuated equilibrium?
Formation of new organisms within a kind.
Principles of Geology
Who is Charles Lyell?
French zoologist who founded the study of comparative anatomy.
Who is Georges Cuvier?
DD What false idea says that the present is the key to the past?
What is uniformitarianism?
What is the diagram that shows the presumed evolutionary relationships between all living and extinct organisms?
What is tree of life?
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God.
What is creation?
German professor from Tubingen who wrote The Natural History of Plants
Who is Leonard Fuchs?
Described plants used for medicinal purposes in Living Pictures of Herbs.
Who is Otto Brunfels?
What idea states that a type of organism that survives better than any other type of organism will become predominant?
What is natural selection?
What is the term for the old Greek idea that says living things come from nonliving things?
What is spontaneous generation?
The idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance.
What is specified complexity
British Theologian who wrote Natural Theology
Who is William Paley?
Discovered blood circulation.
Who is William Harvey?
The idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors is embryonic _________?
What is recapitulation?
What are the "useless" organs supposedly left over from the earlier stages of evolutionary development?
What are vestigial organs?
The study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures.
What is called comparative anatomy?