Biological Anthropology: Ch. 2- Evolution: Constructing afundamental scientific theory
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1. General belief system in Middle Ages
2. Great chain of being, fixity of species, grand design
3. Main figures preceding Darwin and their contribution (Ray,Hooke, Linnaeus, Hutton, Cuvier, Malthus, Lamarck, Lyell,Wallace)
4. Evolution vs. natural selection
5. Main aspects of Darwin’s theory of natural selection
6. What Darwin couldn’t explain
7. The level that natural selection and evolution each workon
8. Blending inheritance
9. Mendel and his experiments
10. Terms related to Mendelian inheritance (allele, dominant,recessive, genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous)
11. Evolutionary synthesis
12. Who contributed to determining DNA’s structure (Watson,Crick, Franklin)
