a4 Fossils
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1 T or F: Processes of fossilization include burial, replacement,
distillation, and imprint.
2 T or F: Cesi perpetuated the Aristotelian claim that fossils of organic form
were not once living.
3 T or F: Leonardo and later Fracastoro held that shells in a stratum were
once living creatures and have the same age as the stratum.
4 T or F: Steno in De solido, 1669, describes fossils as being like
roots that grow.
5 T or F: Hooke stated that there are many "new kinds of creatures now,
which have not been from the beginning."
6 T or F: The Law of Elasticity states that stress is proportional to strain.
7 T or F: A bone within the stone of a local quarry was described by Plot in
1677 as that of an elephant.
8 T or F: Lister was convinced that the deluge theory accounted for fossils in
strata.
9 T or F: Linnaeus claimed that the species that exist now were created in the
beginning.
10 T or F: Ray and Lister disagreed as to the origin of fossils but remained good
friends.
| Johnson, Life of Pope see paragraph 101 in 011-03-01 |
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| Fossilization process 011-04-01 011-04-02 |
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| Cesi 011-05-01 |
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| Shells, Leonardo, ca.1500 011-06-01 Fracastoro, 1517 011-07-01 |
 Mason, S. F. A History of the Sciences (Collier Books, NY, 1962), p. 395. |
| Hooke, fossils, Micrographica 011-08-01 |
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| Hooke, ceiiinosssttuv 011-09-01 |
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| Plot 011-10-01 011-10-02 |
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| Plot, Ashmolean, elephant 011-11-01 011-11-02 011-11-03 |
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| Lister, fossil shells 011-12-01 011-12-02 |
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| Linnaeus, species 011-13-01 |
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| Ray, fossils 011-14-01 011-14-02 011-14-03 |
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1 T or F: Ray claimed that fossil shells are the buried remains of once living
creatures
2 T or F: Lhwyd sent Ray some plant fossils very similar to extant (living) types.
3 T or F: Linnaeus and Mendes da Costa thought "fossils" were natural but
not necessarily organic.
4 T or F: Rothschild found the chemical signature of syphilis in New World bones of
an 11,000-year-old bear.
5 T or F: Beringer asked Dr. Samuel Johnson to scrutinize illustrations of the
fossils that he had collected.
6 T or F: Homo diluvii testis, an Upper Miocene giant salamander, was
incorrectly identified as a human by Scheuchzer.
Write an eleven-word modern definition of the word fossil (see page 011).
(Yes or No) Does this definition mean that a human footprint left in cave
mud 30,000 years ago is a fossil?
| Lhwyd 012-01-01 |
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| Extraneous fossils 012-02-01 012-02-02 |
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| Beringer portrate in 011-01-01 |
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| Beringer frontispiece 011-01-02 |
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| plates 011-01-03 011-01-04 saltings exposed 011-02-02 011-02-03 |
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| Homo diluvii testis 012-03-01 012-03-02 |
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| Scheuchzer Herbarium Diluvianum 012-04-01 012-04-02 012-04-03 |
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Fracastoro, syphilis
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/endemic+syphilis
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020134syphilis/020134syphilis-ch2.htm
Rothschild, syphilis
http://www.henryfordhealth.org/155650.cfm