In the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps), Females develop from the queen’s fertilized eggs and are diploid. Males develop from the queen’s unfertilized eggs and are haploid—their sperm are genetically identical

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

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