Ch19: Descent with Modification People

Question 1

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 1

-physician/botanist that developed the binomial naming system
-adopted a classification system in which similar species were grouped in the same genus

Question 2

Charles Lyell

Answer 2

uniformitarianism: proposed that the same mechanisms mentioned by James Hutton are still at work today in the same rate as they were in the past

Question 3

James Hutton

Answer 3

-proposed the idea that the Earth’s geological features came to be about by gradual methods
-eg. a valley forming because of a river wearing through rocks

Question 4

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Answer 4

wrongly proposed the idea of 1) use and disuse, 2) acquired traits could be inheritable, and believed evolution occurs because organisms have an innate drive to become more complex

Question 5

Alfred Russel Wallace

Answer 5

developed a hypothesis on natural selection nearly identical to Darwin’s