Art Forms of the Nature

Ernst Haeckel (恩斯特·海克尔)

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A brief review of history of evolutionary biology

What is Aristotle's concept of evolutionary biology?
What is the naming system of organisms called?
What is Jean Baptiste Larmarck's theory of evolution?
What contributions did Louis Pasteur make?
How did Charles Darwin define "evolution"?
How did Dobzhansky defined "evolution"? How did he amend Darwin's theory?

<aside> 📌 SUMMARY: Evolutionary biology has gone through 4 main stages. 1. antiquity stage by Aristotle; 2. classical taxonomy by Carl Linnnaeus and Jean Baptiste Lamarck; 3. Modern evolutionary biology by Charles Darwin, gregor Mendel, and Ernst Haeckel; 4. Modern synthesis & phylogenetics

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Basic concepts of Phylogenetics

What are the two goals of phylogenetic study?
What is "ingroup" and "outgroup"?
What is "character" and "character state"?
What is "synapomorphy" and "symplesiomorphy"?
What is "homology" and "homoplasy"?