Plesiomorphic character- Primitive/unchange from ancestor Synplesiomorphic character- Primitive share ancestral character

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

James Hutton and Charles Lyell- Uniformitarianism

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Chevalier de Lamarck- Inheritance of acquired characteristics

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Neo-Lamarckism- August Weismann cut off the tails of mice for many generations and showed that this mutilation had no effect on the tail length of their descendants

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Alfred Russel Wallace- Who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had independently conceived of natural selection.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Darwin’s evolutionary theory- Evolution as such is the simple proposition that the characteristics of organisms change over time.

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory- Common descent