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Biogeography Biogeography
Biogeography Why do different species occur in the places they do? Biogeography is the study of why animal species (and also plants) live in different regions on Earth. This includes both organisms alive today as well as those that have become extinct. Any particular animal... Read more
Landscape evolution Landscape evolution
landscape evolution ‘Landscape evolution’ is the term used to describe the ways that landscapes evolve or change over time. Some of the earliest geological insights arose from the realization that the Earth has a history and that the landforms on the Earth's surface evolve over time... Read more
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel , 1834-1919, German biologist and philosopher. He taught (1862-1909) at the Univ. of Jena. An early exponent of Darwinism in Germany, he evolved a mechanistic form of monism based on his interpretation of Darwin's theories and set forth in his speculative popular works on... Read more
Body Cavities Body Cavities
Body Cavities The evolution of body cavities within the kingdom Animalia has a very interesting history. In fact, the increasing complexity of animal form and function during the evolution of the group can be directly linked to the evolution of ever-more-sophisticated body... Read more
Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913, English naturalist. From his study of comparative biology in Brazil and in the East Indies, he evolved a concept of evolution similar to that of Charles Darwin . Like Darwin, he was greatly influenced by the writings of Malthus and Lyell and based his theories... Read more
Anaximander Anaximander
Anaximander , c.611-c.547 BC, Greek philosopher, b. Miletus; pupil of Thales . He made the first attempt to offer a detailed explanation of all aspects of nature. Anaximander argued that since there are so many different sorts of things, they must all have originated from something less... Read more
Cantonists Cantonists
CANTONISTS The cantonist system in the Russian Empire evolved from bureaucratic attempts to combine a solution to two unrelated problems: welfare provision for the families of common soldiers and sailors, and the dearth of trained personnel to meet the multifarious needs of the modernizing imperial... Read more
Social exchange Social exchange
Social Exchange Theory The Social Exchange Framework was formally advanced in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the work of the sociologists George Homans (1961) and Peter Blau (1964) and the work of social psychologists John Thibaut and Harold Kelley (1959). Over the years, several exchange... Read more
geography geography
Geography Geography is the study of the physical and geopolitical aspects of the surface of Earth. Physical geography describes the different surface and climatic conditions around the world. Political geography is concerned with the division of the world into various levels of government, human... Read more
mosaic evolution mosaic evolution
mosaic evolution The evolution of different parts of an organism at different rates. For example, many aspects of the human phenotype have evolved relatively slowly or not at all since the hominids diverged from their primate ancestors, one notable exception being the nervous system, which has given... Read more

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