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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Proximate causes - The subject of cell biology, neurobiology, and many other biological disciplines

Ultimate causes - Their historical causes, especially the action of natural selection

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

 Before Darwin - Christians interpreted “special creation”

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Carolus Linnaeus - Classified “related” species into genera, “related” genera into orders, and so on. 

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

James Hutton and Charles Lyell – Uniformitarianism Darwin was greatly influenced by Lyell’s teachings, and he adopted uniformitarianism in his thinking about evolution.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Chevalier de Lamarck - Inheritance of acquired characteristics

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

In the most famous example of Lamarck’s theory, giraffes must have stretched their necks to reach foliage above them, and so their necks were lengthened. The longer necks were inherited, and over the course of generations, this process was repeated, and their necks got longer and longer.