Before Darwin Flashcards
Anaximander of Miletus:
a. created first __ map
b. Early ideas of where ____ organisms came from
a. world
b. contemporary
Plato:
a. Philosophical view that there is an ___ form
a. ideal
Aristotle:
a. Classified organisms with ___ ___
b. Thought species were ___ (Essentialism)
a. Scala Naturae
b. unchanging
Augustine of Hippo:
a. Forms of life had been ___ overtime
a. transformed
Carolus Linnaeus:
a. Established framework of __ taxonomy in ____ naturae
b. taxonomic survey of __ and animals
a. modern, systema
b. plants
Jean Baptiste Lamarck:
a. Inheritance of acquired ____
b. Transformism
a. characteristics
Georges Cuvier:
a. father of modern ____
b. Compared ___ to extinct species
c. First to articulate concept of ____
d. Catastrophism: changes in the earth’s crust during __ history have resulted from violent and ___ events
a. paleontology
b. elephants
c. extinction
d. geological, sudden
