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What Scientists
Do
- hypothesis
- null hypothesis
- control
- theory
- induction
- peer review
Discovery of Time I
- discovery of time
- Julius Africanus
- Chronogria
- James Ussher
- Principle of Superposition of Strata
- Principle of Faunal Succession
- tongue stones
- Nicolas Steno
- Prodromus
- Robert Hooke
- Buffon
- Histoire Naturelle
- catastrophism
- James Hutton
- Theory of the Earth
Discovery of Time II
- Cuvier
- Mary Anning
- William Buckland
- Chain of Being
- Red Witch of Paviland
- Paleozoic
- Mesozoic
- Cenozoic
- Charles Lyell
- Principles of Geology
- uniformitarianism
- Lamarck
- Theory of Organic Progression
- Madame Curie
- radioactive half life
What is Life? - Origin of Life 1
- prebiotic evolution
- density waves
- protoplanetary disk
- protostar
- Drake Equation
- Hadean era
How Life Works - Origin of Life 2
- electromagnetic radiation (EM)
- kinetic energy
- potential energy
- First Law of Thermodynamics
- Second Law of Thermodynamics
- entropy
- chemical bond
- ions
- oxidation
- reduction
- ADP/ATP
- glucose
- autotroph
- heterotroph
- photosynthesis
- respiration
- feedback
- negative feedback
- positive feedback
Origin of Life 3
- spontaneous generation hypothesis
- Francesco Redi
- Stanley Miller
- Harold Urey
- Miller-Urey experiment
- A.I. Oparin
- J.B.S. Haldane
- Oparin-Haldane hypothesis
- primordial soup
- coacervates
- protocell
- monomer
- polymer
- condensation
- J.D. Bernal
- clay matrix hypothesis
- deep sea thermal vents
- Miller-Urey model
- neutral model
- vent model
- Melvin Calvin
- Murchison meteorite
- panspermia hypothesis
- directed panspermia
Cells to Organisms
- amino acid
- protein
- cell membrane
- DNA
- RNA
- gene
- chromosome
- codon
- protein synthesis
- enzyme
- RNA World hypothesis
- PAH World
- LCA (Last Common Ancestor)
- mutation
- universal tree of life
- Domain
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Eukarya
- prokaryote
- eukaryotes
- extremophiles
- stromatolites
- banded iron deposits
- oxygen revolution
- eukaryotic cell
- endosymbiosis
- mitochondria
- chloroplasts
- colonial organism
Cambrian Explosion
- stratigraphy
- biostratigraphy
- chronostratigraphy
- IUGS
- golden spike
- Eon
- Era
- Period
- Hadean
- Archaean
- Proterozoic
- Phanerozoic
- unconformity
- Cambrian
- Precambrian
- Cambrian Explosion
- Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Burgess Shale
- Anomalocaris
- stromatolites
- R.C. Spriggs
- Ediacaran fauna
- Small Shelly Fauna (SSF)
- S.J. Gould
- punctuated equilibrium
- Snowball Earth
- Ice Age
- Milankovich cycles
- tillite
- greenhouse effect
- Pikaia
Fossils 1
- fossils
- taphonomy
- environmental bias
- scavengers
- detritivores
- disarticulation
- bioerosion
- bog people
- transport
- corrosion
- flattening
- carbonization
- replacement (mineralization)
- diagenesis
- mold
- cast
- amber
- La Brea Tar Pits
- preservation bias
- paleoecology
- biological community
- evolutionary paleoecology
- ichnology
Fossils 2
- Charles Elton
- niche
- food chain
- food web
- Pyramid of Numbers
- Raymond Lindeman
- Pyramid of Energy
- ecosystem
- trophic level
- autotrophs
- producers
- heterotrophs
- consumers
- collection bias
- community structure
- association (or assemblage)
- succession
- evolutionary fauna
- Mesozoic marine revolution
- life history strategy
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Extinction 1
- Immanuel Velikovsky
- Luis & Walter Alvarez
- iridium anomaly
- extinction
- field of bullets
- fair game
- wanton extinction
- background extinction
- mass extinction
- big five extinctions
- shocked quartz
- stishovite
- tektites
- CP boundary
Extinction 2
- comet
- asteroid
- meteoroid (meteor)
- meteorite
- periodic extinction
- Oort cloud
- Planet X
- Nemesis
- The Great Dying
- Siberian Traps
- Pleistocene blitzkrieg
Dinosaurs 1-3
- Mary Ann Mantell
- Gideon Mantell
- Iguanodon
- Cuvier
- Richard Owen
- catastrophism
- Crystal Palace
- Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
- Charles Knight
- John Ostrom
- Robert Bakker
- John Horner
- improved stance
- predator/prey ratio
- endothermic
- ectothermic
- collection bias
- Archaeopteryx
- T.H. Huxley
- Archosauria
- thecodonts
- Ornithischia
- Saurischia
- ichnology
- coprolite
- trackway
- gastrolith
Human Evolution
- T.H. Huxley - Man’s Place in Nature
- Darwin - Descent of Man
- Order Primates
- great apes
- arboreal
- cursorial
- opposable thumb
- preadaptation
- Australopithecus
- A. afarensis
- tool use
- bipedalism
- savanna
- Homo erectus
- Homo sapiens
- H. s. neanderthalis
- mitochondrial DNA
- Out of Africa
- multiregional theory
- monogenesis theory
- cultural evolution
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