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1,224 words... nd obscurity. Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits. " However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel, and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution. Would Lamarck have agreed with Darwin? That is the question. Since Lamarck believe that creatures willed themselves to change, he would have felt that the moths felt the need to change. He may have supported natur...
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2,114 wordsThe "Nemesis Theory" was an outgrowth of the discovery of Alvarez et al. , that the impact of a large (10 km diameter) comet or asteroid was responsible for the great mass extinction that took place 65 million years ago. Studies of the fossil record by Dave Raup and Jack Sepkoski shows that this was not an isolated event, but one of several mass extinctions that appear to occur on a regular 26 million year cycle. Their original paper analyzed marine fossil families, and was published in the Proc...
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1,685 wordsMegatherium Geology is the study of Earth. It examines Earths substances, forms, processes and history. Geology also gives start to all other sciences making them work. The farther we take a geological question, the more other sciences come into action. If one brings up the question of geology, the first thought appears is rocks. But rocks are found to be not just stones. These rocks are stories. To figure out the Earth, rocks are where to start. If one takes a closer look at them, she or he may...
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3,666 wordsIntroduction To Evolution What is Evolution? Evolution is the process by which all living things have developed from primitive organisms through changes occurring over billions of years, a process that includes all animals and plants. Exactly how evolution occurs is still a matter of debate, but there are many different theories and that it occurs is a scientific fact. Biologists agree that all living things come through a long history of changes shaped by physical and chemical processes that ar...
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2,448 wordsNatural Selection process by which populations become adapted to the environment. The fitness of an individual is measured by how well its offspring reproduce i. e. how many offspring that survive and reproduce does an individual produce? Charles Darwin studies and close watched peppered moths (Boston Betularia) in their natural habitat. The peppered moths are light colored with darker areas of color. Like humans, however, these moths can be found in a range of pigmentation from very black to ve...
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693 wordsExtinction of Dinosaurs Ryan Humphries Biology 6 th Period Two-hundred and thirty million years ago the first dinosaur-like creature roamed the earth. Within five million years it could be considered a dinosaur. They were soon at the top of the food chain. They populated every continent. Then 65 million years ago they vanished. The most powerful creatures ever to live on earth had become extinct. Dinosaurs were not the only victims of this mass extinction. There were many other species that were...
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403 wordsDinosaurs: How they became extinct Something happened 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered the course of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic time goes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how did these dominant creatures just die off? Was it a slow extinction, or did it happen all of the sudden? These questions bring rise to many different beliefs on how the dinosaur disappeared o...
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1,623 wordsThe first question that must be posed when trying to crack the mystery of the mass extinction is to ask, throughout history were there any other occurences of this magnitude? The answer is a resounding yes. Altogether over time there has been about eight mass extinctions to large land dwelling vertebrates. The most recent was about ten thousand years ago, killing most of the giant mammals like mammoths, mastodons, super-large camels, saber-toothed tigers, and others (Bakker 428). The second ques...
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1,087 wordsWHERE DID THEY GO? BY JOHN J. HATFIELD EARTH SCIENCE LAB 2234 TERM 2 INTRODUCTION The biggest mystery surrounding the dinosaur is how did they die? For over 130 million years dinosaurs ruled the earth. Then 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, they died out. Nobody can really say what actually eliminated the species, although everyone has their very own idea. Asteroid impact, atmospheric changes (hot to cold), catastrophic eruptions and astronomical events (supernovas etc. ...
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