Biology- Evolution: A Retreat from Science 14.1 -FINISHED
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| The acceptance of evolution by the scientific community can be credited largely to the British naturalist _________ ________. Although he was virtually unknown in his day, his naturalistic ideas would eventually have an enormous impact. | Charles Darwin
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| Who wrote Principles of Geology? | Charles Lyell
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| Who created uniformitarianism? | Charles Lyell
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| The idea that the present is the only key to the past, and that all things continue by natural processes at the same rate as they always have done. | uniformitarianism
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| The cornerstone of Darwin's hypothesis was ______ ________, the idea that the fittest and strongest of each species were more likely to survive and reproduce than weaker, poorly adapted animals. | natural selection
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| This reasoning is faulty because variety within kinds has ______ _____- a fact that Darwin would not accept. | definite boundaries
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| What does natural selection really do? | it preserves existing kinds, not to create new kinds
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| Some of Darwin's followers founded the "science" or _____, which sought to improve the humans species by selectively breeding humans to produce a "master race". | eugenics
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