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Key elements of Darwinian evolutionary theory? |
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- natural selection
- Natural variation with in species
- Traits that are adaptive to a given environment will allow an individual organism to be more successful to live long enough to reproduce
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Key elements of Lamarckian evolutionary theory? |
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- Inheritance of accquired characteristics/habits
- Environments act on species
- Species become more complex w/ time--> progress
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- Left no room for Lamarck's theory, stricter form of Darwinism
- Weismann is a famous Neo-Darwin (German Biologist proposing Germ Plasm Theory)
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- Had no interest in Lamarck until Darwin came along and looked into the past to challenge Darwin simply because they did not like Darwins theory
- George Bernard Shaw and Butler (english novelist, social/politcal thinker)
- Excludes room for Darwins theory in Lamarcks
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What is a first person kind of view? |
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What is Middlesex's narrator's point of view and what is it? |
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1st Person Omniscient. Character tells story but knows what each other character is thinking and doing and what is going on outside of the characters own prespective. |
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Only able to read a few characters minds |
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A narrator from an object type of view is? |
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Not able to read other peoples minds. |
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Technique used by Post-Modernist to draw attention in a novel that an outher is writing it and that it is fictional.
e.g. Jack saying all plots lead to death in White Noise |
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Something real being shown as rediculous.
e.g. SIMUVAC excercise--> meaninglessness of structure of government, organization, philosophy, system to try to control the world. |
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- Author of General Anatomy
- Emphasized belief in tissues being smallest unit of organs.
- Similar to how chemicals are broken down into elements, so must organs be broken down into tissues.
- Believed in 21 diffrent kinds of tissue that made up the body
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- Author of The Physical Basis of Mind
- Believed there was too much emphasis on the cell and not the nerve fiber itself.
- Emphasized examining how the cells connected and interacted with organs and the body as a whole
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- Finished Cell Theory=cell is the smallest unit of the body
- Compared individual to a society in which one individual cell (the citizen) funtioned and did specific jobs in relation to other cells making each other dependent
- Author of Cellular Pathology
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- German Biologist
- Neo-Darwinist
- Proposed Germ Plasm Theory
- Created Modern Synthesis- Combined Darwinism with Mendelian genetics
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