Animal Kingdom Flashcards
Evidences for former life (Xenophanes, Empedocles, Aristotle)
Fossils
Past Geological Events occured by natural processes
Uniformitarianism
Charles Lyell- Earth must be millions of years old
Uniformitarianism
1st hypothesis for evolution (transformational)
Lamarckism
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck - Inheritance of acquired characteristics
Lamarckism
Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace - PERPETUAL CHANGE, COMMON DESCENT, MULTIPLICATION OF SPECIES, GRADUALISM,NATURAL SELECTION
Theory of Evolution (variational)
Fossils, Uniformitarianism, Lamarckism, Theory of Evolution
Origins of Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
Rise of Man
Quaternary
Rise of Mammals
Tertiary
Modern seed bearing plants dinosaurs
Cretaceous
First Birds
Jurassic
Cycads,First dinosaurs
Triassic
First Reptiles
Permian
First Insects
Pennsylvanian
Many crinoids
Misissippian
First seed plants cartilage fish
Devonian
Earliest land animals
Silurian
Early bony fish
Ordovician
Invertebrate animals, brachiapods, trilobites
Cambrian
Bacteria, Algae, Jellyfish
Proterozoic Era
Earth’s crust had cool enough to allow the formation of continents and life started to form
Archean Era
Formation of the earth
Hadean Era
Individual development
Ontogeny
Repeats
Recapitulates