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Famous for his work in Taxonomy, the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms. Wrote an essay on classifying plants based on their sexual parts.
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He thought that as time goes on, animals will adapt to their environment. However he thought taht this was an instantatious process, not one that takes hundreds of years.
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Thought of organisms as integrated wholes, in which each part's form and function are integrated into teh entire body.
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Gradulism is the theory that says that profound change is teh cumulative product of slow, but continuous processes.
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He used the alias Joseph Johnson. It is known as teh most influential book on population of the era.
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He figured out taht all species descend over time from common ancestors. He also came up woith natural selcetion, a process in which there is a strugle to survive and only the strongest, or those with the rights traits survive.
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Charles started out as a lawyer, then became a geologist. He studied at Oxford under William Buckland, until William tried to match the most resent mnatural disaster to Noah's flood in teh bible.
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This book is a detailed memoir of biology, geology and anthropology writen by Charles darwin durign his five year voyage of teh HMS Beagle.
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Charles Darwin wrote and unpublished essay tat was later taken and combined with an essay writen by Alfred Russel Wallace to make On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection, which was published in 1858
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The full title of teh work is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
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Johann worked for years with pea plants in order to figure out why children look like their parents.
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He was the first person to discover that DNA was a distinct molecule.
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Showed that mutilatig a parent will not change the look of the child.
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He was able to see 11 chromosomes during meisosis, as well as teh sex chromosomes.
