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Evolution

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Any change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next

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Natural selection

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Generic change or changes in the frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential reproductive success between individuals

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Catastrophism

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The view that the earth’s geological landscape is the result of violent cataclysmic/ catastrophic events

Promoted by Cuvier

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Uniformitarianism

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The theory that the earth’s features are the result of long-term processes that continue to operate in the present just as they did in the past.

Opposed catastrophism and contributed strongly to the concept of immense geological time

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Thomas Malthus

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Proposed that popular size increases at a faster rate than food supplies

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Charles Lyell

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The immense age of the earth

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Charles Darwin

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Began to doubt the fixity if species during a voyage around the world

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Fixity of species

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The belief that species do not change but are the same as when they were first created

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Carolina Linnaeus

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Established a binomial system of classification for plants and animals