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Testability |
Natural selection |
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Hypothesis |
Evolution |
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Buffon |
Biogeography |
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Cuvier |
Fossil record |
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Catastrophism |
Taxonomy |
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Hutton |
Comparative Anatomy |
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Lyell |
Homologous structures |
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Uniformitarianism |
Vestigial organs |
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Lamarck |
Comparative Embryology |
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Inheritance of acquired characters |
Ontogeny |
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Charles Darwin |
Phylogeny |
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Galapogos Islands |
Molecular Biology |
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Malthus |
DNA sequences |
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Heritable variation |
Genetic code |
Even though it is largely an historical science, how is evolution by natural selection testable?
What does the influence of other individuals' ideas on Darwin tell you about how scientific ideas come about?
What were the main lines of evidence that Darwin used to support evolution by natural selection? What other support do we have now?