BIOL212 Word Scramble
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Name | Who they are |
Ernst Haekel | The German zoologist whose influential hypothesis stated each successive change in development of an organism represented an adult form present in its evolutionary history. Ex: a human embryo with gill depressions in its neck signifies fishlike ancestors |
Alfred Russel Wallace | Developed from his research the same theories as Darwin and persuaded Darwin to publish his results. |
Sir Charles Lyell | Established the principal of uniformitarianism and his book, "Principles of Geology" greatly influenced Darwin during his formative years. |
Thomas Henry Huxley | One of England's greatest zoologists and became one of Darwin's foremost advocates and engaged in bitter debates with Darwin's critics. |
Charles Darwin | From his research on the Beagle's voyage to the Galapagos Islands, he published a book titled, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" in 1859. |
August Weismann | A German biologist who rejected Lamarckian inheritance by showing experimentally that modifications of an organism during its lifetime do not change its heredity. |
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck | Provided first scientific explanation for evolution via the mechanism of inheritance of acquired characteristics. Ex: giraffes obtained long necks because their ancestors stretched and lengthened their necks. |
T.R. Malthus | Published an essay on populations which stated that animal and plant populations, including humans, tend to increase beyond the capacity of their environment to support them. |
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