History of Evolutionary Thought
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ebarrett16 on January 27, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Linnaeus | popularizes binomial nomenclature, father of taxonomy, nested hierarchies |
| Malthus | essay on population, population grows exponentially (faster than resources), Darwin sees that this leads to competition |
| Lyell | geologist, uniformitarianism (slow uniform processes), writes about the surface of the earth changing, sees that dramatic natural events wipe out land and create new land |
| Lamarck | own theory of evolution, depended on inheritance of acquired traits, "use and disuse" (traits that are used more become more developed) |
| Wallace | comes up with same idea as Darwin, influences Darwin to publish together |
| Darwin | traveled on Beagle, collected samples, formulated theory at home years later |
| Darwin's theory | natural variation (random mutations), inheritance, convergent evolution, divergent evolution, analogous traits, homologous traits, vestigial structures |
| Sydney Fox | proteinoid microspheres, a.k.a. protobionts |
| Aristotle | scala naturae: linear hierarchy that organizes living things in single layers |
| Copernicus | heliocentrism, he realizes that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Robert Fitzroy | captain of HMS beagle, invited Darwin as his companion, opposed Darwin's ideas about natural selection |
| Thomas Henry Huxely | "Darwin's bulldog", shows evidence through skeletons that humans and apes have common ancestor |
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