This document provides an overview of several topics including:
1) The geologic time scale which divides Earth's history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs spanning from 4.6 billion years ago to the present.
2) Key events in evolutionary history such as the Cambrian explosion of life, the rise of dinosaurs in the Mesozoic era, and the emergence of humans in the Cenozoic era.
3) Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection, including the mechanisms of natural selection, adaptive radiation, and convergent evolution.
This document provides an overview of several topics including:
1) The geologic time scale which divides Earth's history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs spanning from 4.6 billion years ago to the present.
2) Key events in evolutionary history such as the Cambrian explosion of life, the rise of dinosaurs in the Mesozoic era, and the emergence of humans in the Cenozoic era.
3) Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection, including the mechanisms of natural selection, adaptive radiation, and convergent evolution.
This document provides an overview of several topics including:
1) The geologic time scale which divides Earth's history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs spanning from 4.6 billion years ago to the present.
2) Key events in evolutionary history such as the Cambrian explosion of life, the rise of dinosaurs in the Mesozoic era, and the emergence of humans in the Cenozoic era.
3) Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection, including the mechanisms of natural selection, adaptive radiation, and convergent evolution.
- STUDYING ROCK LAYERS AND FOSSILS FORMED ALONG WITH SOLAR SYS 4.6B EON—ERA—PERIOD—EPOCH -HADEAN EON – OLDEST, HADES -ARCHEAN -PROTEROZOIC – PRESENCE OF OXY. – CYANOBACTERIA -PHANEROZOIC – 541M TO PRESENT PALEOZOIC ERA – SEAS MOVE TO LAND =CAMBRIAN=ORDOVICIAN=SILURIAN=DEVONIAN =MISSISSIPPIAN=PENNSYLVANIAN=PERMIAN BEGAN WITH INVERTEBRATES SUCH AS TRILOBITES +TRILOBITES +FISH +ARACHNIDS AND INSECTS +FIRST AMPHIBIAN +REPTILES TRILOBITES – ANCIENT SEAS CAMBRIAN – AGE OF THE TRILOBITES FRILLED SHARK – LIVING FOSSIL MESOZOIC ERA - = TRIASSIC =JURASSIC = CRETACEOUS +DINOSAURS +SMALL MAMMALS +BIRDS TRIASSIC – FIRST DINO SMALL IN SIZE PLSANOSAURUS – 15 POUNDS EORAPTOR – 20 POUNDS JURASSIC – 1ST MAMMALS MEGAZOSTRODON – 1 ST MAMMAL ARCHAEOPTERYX – 1ST BIRDS CRETACEOUS ANGIOSPERM – 1ST FLOWER CENOZOIC ERA - = TERTIARY = QUATERNARY +HUMANS MAMMALS HOMO SAPIENS – 1ST HUMANS
THE PROTEROZOIC – NO LIFE POSSIBLE
/PROKARYOTES AND EUKARYOTES – SINGLE CELLED FORMS /RODINIA – LAND MASSES GATHER CAMBRIAN – EXPLOSION OF LIFE /SUPERCONTINENT GONDWANA BRACHIOPODS – RESEMBLE CLAMS ORDOVICIAN – 1ST ANIMALS WITH BONES /GONDWANA, BALTICA, SIBERIA AND LAURENTIA SILURIAN – 1ST LAND PLANTS DEVONIAN – AGE OF FISH
CHARLES DARWIN – FEB. 12 1809
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION 1859 1831 – 5 YEARS VOYAGE, HMS BEAGLE MOCKINGBIRDS, FINCHES, TORTOISE SHELL, FOSSILES /ORGANISM HAVE CHANGE OVER TIME /CHANGE IS GRADUAL AND SLW, TAKING PLAC OVER A LONG TIME /ALL ORG. COME FROM COMMON ANCESTORS BY A PROCESS OF BRANCHING /THE MECHANISM OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS NATURAL SELECTION CAMOUFLAGE – RESEMBLE THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND THEM HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPERS
NATURAL SELECTION ADAPTIVE RADIATION – EVOLVED FROM SINGLE ANCES DIVERGENT EVOLUTION – DIVERT TO NEW HABITATS CONVERGENT EVO – MORE SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE CO – EVO – JOINT CHANGE OF TWO OR MORE
EXTINCTION – DINOSAURS, BALL TIGER, DODO BIRD
RARITY – FEW LEFT INBREEDING – MATE TO MUCH HYBRIDIZATION – SUB SPECIES MATE GRADUAL LOSS OF HABITAT LONG-TERM ENVIRONMENTAL TRENDS – SLOWLY COOL CATASTROPHE – VOLCANIC EXTINCTION OR REDUCTION OF MUTUALLISTIC POPULATION COMPETITION – NEW SPECIES INTRODUCED PREDATORS – PREY DECREASE DISEASE – SICKNESS HUNTING AND COLLECTING
BALLROOM DANCE – TRADITIONAL DANCE FORMS
LAITN WORD BALLARE – LARGE ROOM =WALTS =SWING =TANGO = SALSA= BLUES SOCIAL – YOUR PARTNER COMPETITIVE – THE JUDGES EXHIBITION – AN AUDIENCE
PUPOSE – ALLOW US TO EXPERIENCE AND LEARN MORE ABOUT
OUR EMOTIONS AND LEARN HOW TO LET THEM FLOW AND PASS FREELY BY EPRESSING THEM THROUGH DANCING BENEFITS /CAN DECREASE BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTEROL /IMPROVE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH /STRENGTHEN WEIGHT BEARING BONES /HELP PREVENT OR SLOW BONE LOSS RELATED TO OSTEOPOROSIS /LOWER THE RISK OR OBESITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES /PROMOTE INCREASED LUNG CAPACITY WALTZ – FORMAL DANCE IN WHICH TWO PEOPLE HOLDING EACH OTHER MOVE AROUND TEMPOS VIENNESE WALTS – MORE CLOSE HOLD STANCE WITH ROTARY 150 – 180 BEATS PER MINUTES MEDIUM WALTZ – ROTARY DANCE WHERE THE DANCERS A 110 BEATS PER MINUTE SLOW WALTZ – 84 TO 90 BEATS PER MINUTE
DOXA – OPINION / BELIEF
EPISTEME – KNOWLEDGE PLATO – FIRST TO DIFF. KNOWLEDGE FROM OPINION SYLLOGISM – DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENT OF A CERTAIN ARISTOTLE – INHERETED THE SYLLOGISM AS PROFF
RENE DESCARTES – FATHER OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
“I THINK, THEREFORE I EXIST”
POSTMODERNISM – ATTACK ON THE NOTION OBJECTIVE REALITY
JACQUES DERRIDA – COMTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHER TO WHOM DECONSTRUCTION IS ATTRIBUTED CORRESPONDENCE THEORY – OLDEST MODEL OF TRUTH LINGUISTICS – SETS OUT OF IDEA, NO MEANING OR VALUES SENSE – UNDERSTOOD AS MEANING REFERENCE – REFERED TO DENOTATION
BERTRAND RUSSELL – ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF ANALYTIC PHILO
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD – HE CO AUTHORED WITH HIS STUDENT BERTRAND RUSSEL THE PRINCIPAL OF MATHEMATICS LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN – FAMOUS WORKS ARE -TRACTACUS LOGICO -PHILOSSPHICUS -PHILOSOPHICAL INVISTAGATIONS
EPISTEMOLOGY – BRANCH OF PHILO
OPINION—USE SERIES OF QUESTIONING—ANSWERING TO DISCOVER
TRUTH—CROSS EXAMINATION—EXAMPLE—TRUTH RENE – GAVE THE CRITERIA
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